Mazes and labyrinths : a general account of their history and developments (1922)
Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, London, E.E.4 · leaf 207
f chil-dren, not to mention a fair sprinkling of their elders. The circular Troy-town or Plan-de-Troy, formed of tall espaliers, which formerly co-existed with the present maze (see Fig. 112), has long been replaced by a sunken rockery, the path of which, however, is of a very K 129 meandering… … Fig. 112.—Hampton Court. The Wilderness, with Maze and Plan-de-Troy, in Eighteenth Century. (Engravingby J. Rocque,1736.) said to have been a verdant representation of militarydefence works, cut yew and variegated holly beingtaught, as Walpole says, to imitate the lines, angles,bastions, scarps and…
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