Hints for picturesque improvements in ornamented cottages, and their scenery : including some observations on the labourer and his cottage : in three essays : illustrated by sketches
Edmund Bartell's 1804 London treatise, printed for J. Taylor's Architectural Library, offers essays on picturesque improvements to ornamented cottages and their surrounding scenery. The aquatint-style plates show sketched cottages rendered in sepia wash under spreading trees, each printed sideways on the page so the buildings appear rotated. A designer could take from them the loose, shadowed foliage framing and the gabled, latticed cottage massing that defined the picturesque manner.
