The guide-album to the palaces and gardens of Versailles and the Trianons
A guide-album published in Paris in 1878 for visitors to the palaces and gardens of Versailles and the Trianons, with photographic views and stereoscopic plates. The pictures here are numbered ground-plan diagrams of the Château de Versailles and its wings, drawn in black outline with keyed room numbers. A designer could take from them the stark, schematic clarity of architectural plans, with dense rows of numbered rooms and a clear legend-driven layout.
