Grotesque architecture, or, Rural amusement : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, Moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green-houses, &c. many of which may be executed with flints, irregular sotnes, rude branches, and roots of trees : the whole containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each : to which is added, an explanation, with the methods of executing them
A pattern book of garden-building designs by William Wrighte, engraved by Isaac Taylor and A. Thornthwaite and reissued in London in 1815 for landowners and builders laying out picturesque grounds. The 28 plates pair line-engraved elevations of hermitages, grottoes, greenhouses and rustic seats with scaled ground plans, giving designers stippled rockwork, root-and-branch framing, hatched masonry and measured-scale bars.
