Theorie der Gartenkunst
Theorie der Gartenkunst is a five-volume German treatise on garden design by Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld, published in Leipzig in 1780 for garden makers, patrons and educated readers. Its engravings show façade elevations of country houses and palaces, drawn flat and frontal with ruled stonework, sash windows and giant orders. A designer could take from them the proportions of pedimented centrepieces, rusticated bases and colonnaded fronts for period architectural motifs.
