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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 stones, 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 method of executing them

Wrighte, William, Thornthwaite, A., 18th cent, Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England) · 1790 · London : Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ... · 40 pictures

A pattern book of twenty-eight garden-building designs by William Wrighte, engraved by A. Thornthwaite and published by I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library in London in 1790 for landowners and builders fitting out pleasure grounds. Line etchings pair small elevations of hermitages, grottos, mosques and root-built huts with scaled floor plans, giving spiky Gothic tracery, rubble and branchwork texture, and geometric plan diagrams.

Architecture, Domestic · Garden structures · Garden ornaments and furniture · Grotesque in architecture

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