Le Désert de Retz : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden : the artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville / Diana Ketcham.

Main entry:

Ketcham, Diana, author.

Title & Author:

Le Désert de Retz : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden : the artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville / Diana Ketcham.

Edition:

First MIT Press edition.
[Revised and expanded edition.]

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, [1994].
©1994

Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 28

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-132) and index.
Le Desert de Retz -- The Construction of the Desert de Retz, 1774-1789 -- Sect. 2. Models from Antiquity and Analogs in Contemporary Gardens -- Sect. 3. The Desert in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Sect. 4. The Restoration of the Desert de Retz, 1972-1993 -- Sect. 5. Plates from Le Rouge, Jardins anglo-chinois, 1785 -- Afterword / Olivier Choppin de Janvry.

ISBN:

0262111861 (paperback)
9780262111867 (paperback)

Subject:

Monville, François Nicolas Henri Racine de, 1734-1797 Homes and haunts France Chambourcy.
Monville, François Nicolas Henri Racine de, 1734-1797
Désert de Retz (Chambourcy, France)
Gardens, English France Chambourcy History 18th century.
Jardins anglais Chambourcy (France)
Jardins anglais France Chambourcy Histoire 18e siècle.
Gardens, English
Homes
Tuinen.
Follies.
Gardens France Chambourcy.
Désert de Retz (Chambourcy, France) Pictorial works.
Désert de Retz (Chambourcy, France) Ouvrages illustrés.
France Chambourcy
France Chambourcy Désert de Retz
Gardens
France

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
History

Added entries:

Late eighteenth-century French folly garden : the artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville
Artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville

Holdings:

Location: Library main 108150
Call No.: ID SB466.F83.D474; ID:94-B294
Status: Available

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