Lot 743
George-Louis Le Rouge (French, 1700-1790), two Engravings of Chinese Palaces and their Gardens' plates numbers 1 & 7 from book 14: Jardins Anglo-Chinois, 1785. No. 1:(sight 16.125 X 16.375); No. 2 (16.375 x 16) attractively matted and framed. Note: George-Louis Le Rouge was an engineer, engraver, cartographer and official geographer to King Louis XIV. His rare and seminal twenty-one volume Jardins Anglo- Chinois represents one of the most complete treatises on landscape architecture produced in the eighteenth century. Composed of more than 492 plates, published from 1775-1789 and primarily focused on the European adaptation of Chinese design implements in France and England Le Rouge's all-encompassing work also features plans and illustrations for labyrinths, pavilions, follies, grottoes, hermitages cascades, fountains, theaters and temples in Classical, Gothic, and Chinese styles.
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