Picturesque Gardens

0. German Canivet, circa 1840-1850.

1. Robinson's Parasol, Parc de la Motte, Bourgogne, from Habitations Champetres, engraved by Becquet Brothers, c.1855.

2. Home & English Park, from Habitations Champetres by Victor Petit, Paris 1872.

3. The Désert de Retz (Forêt de Marly) - Forest entrance, in Le Rouge: Jardins anglo-chinois. 1776, Cahier XIII: le Désert, Jardin pittoresque appartenant a M. de Monville. The entrance to the "Jardin Pittoresque" was a grotto enshrouded with trees and decorated with two figures of satyrs, made of tin, clasping flaming torches.

4. Center of a labyrinth. Etching by Hieronymus Sperting.

5. Belvedere tree house - Maple Tree of Matibo in Sevigliano, Piedmont. Etching by F. Wiesener (published in Magasin Pittoresque, 1841).

6. Staircas tree, in L. E. Audot: Traité de la composition et de l'ornement des jardins. Paris 1859.

7.Artificial rock at the edge of a lake, topped by a windmill drives a pump that can lift water to great heights in L.E. Audot: Traité de la composition et de l'ornement des Jardins. Paris 1859.

8. Flower-beds in L.E. Audot: Traité de la composition et de l'ornement des Jardins. Paris 1859.

9. View of the Temple of Love at Malmaison. Lithograph by Langlumé, after Guerard.