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Revolutionary discoveries in garden architecture

PETZOLD, Eduard.
Zur Farbenlehre der Landschaft. Beiträge zur Landschafts-Gärtnerei.

With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand.

With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand.

With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand.

With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand.



Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1853. Sm.4to. Contemp. half cloth, orig. front wrapper mounted. With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand. IX, (3), 68 pp.

First edition of a thorough research into the science of colours and perspective, especially in relation to the designing and planning of gardens. Carl Eduard Adolph Petzold (1815-1891) had been park and garden inspector of Prince Pückler at Muskau and of the Great Duke at Weimar, and finally of Prince Frederik of the Netherlands. Convinced that colour and perspective worked quite differently in a garden than on a painting, the author devoted a lifelong study to this subject, resulting in the present work.
It starts with a basic teaching of the science of colours, optics and perspective, followed by the application of colours in practice, their beauty and property, etc. Then an important treatise follows on the special working of colours in the landscape as a result of the perspective of the light and the air, the composition of the sky, etc. The author's revolutionary discoveries in this field made school in garden architecture. The book closes with the basic laws of colour combinations in gardens and with suggestions of colour combinations, not only for flowers, but for trees and shrubbery as well.

Good copy of a rare and important work.- (Library stamps).
Not in Vagnetti; Springer p. 86, et passim.

Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Art General  Engravings  Gardens  Perspective 

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