[Garden designs]
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project
Published: 17uu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Gardens; Design; Early works to 1800; Landscape design; History; Pattern books
Other titles: 17th century original garden designs; Garden designs, 17th c.
Notes: Title from bookseller Lucien Goldschmidt data sheet.

Ninety-nine (99) original garden designs, 45 in sepia ink, 54 outlined in sepia ink and hand colored.

Includes drawings of flower beds, mazes, parks, trellised entrances, parterres etc. in the 17th century French manner, that is, symmetrical and displaying regular geometrical patterns.

The artist who designed the drawings may have been a German practitioner: two drawings provide a scale in German measurements.

Date from bookseller Lucien Goldschmidt, New York, N.Y.: "executed during the 17th century".

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Lib. copy: plates [30] and [31] rectos have measurement scale.

Lib. copy: plate [51] has handwritten text in ink (one line) below image; plate [56] has handwritten text in ink (one line) at top left of image; plate [64] has red handwritten text at top right corner of image: Max; plate [66]: no image on leaf recto (blank), but handwritten text in ink (one line) on leaf verso at center right; plate [95] has handwritten text in ink (one line) below image.