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 pavillions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, etc. many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs, beautifully engraved on copper plates, with scales to each, to which is added a full explanation in letter press, and the true method of executing them / by William Wrighte.

Main entry:

Wrighte, William.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed for H. Webley, 1767.

Description:

14, [2] pages, 28 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Ill. by Isaac Taylor; after A. Thornwaite.
ESTC T86488
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994,c1990. 952

Subject:

Garden ornaments and furniture Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Domestic Designs and plans Early works to 1800.
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Jardins Meubles et ornements Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture domestique Dessins et plans Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Garden ornaments and furniture.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.
Early works.

Added entries:

Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807.
Thornthwaite, J., 1740?-
Rural amusement consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages ...

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Location: Library main 96713
Call No.: 0001923
Status: Available

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