Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation : containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat, into rural and extensive gardens, parks, paddocks, &c., and a general system of agriculture : illustrated with great variety of copper-plates, done by the best hands, from the author's drawings
Ichnographia rustica is an early eighteenth-century English treatise on garden design and agriculture by Stephen Switzer, printed in London in 1718 for country gentlemen and gardeners planning estates. Its pictures are small ornamental headpieces and tailpieces, mostly woodcut vignettes of acanthus-like scrollwork, urns with flowers, and repeated strapwork borders, which a designer could draw on for classical ornament, border bands, and period decorative motifs.
