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, &c., 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
A 1767 London pattern book by William Wrighte, with plates engraved by Isaac Taylor and others and published by Henry Webley, offering designs for rustic garden buildings such as huts, hermitages, grottos and seats for gentlemen's gardens. The plates show plans, elevations and sections drawn in clean line engraving, with rough stone and root-work structures that a designer could adapt for rustic garden follies, grotto interiors or picturesque landscape features.
