Design for a fountain surrounded by four square parterres for a pleasure garden
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Engraving, with a garden design, part of an album with with 30 plates (mostly folded) of garden designs created by André Mollet and dedicated to Queen Kristina of Sweden. The album intends to provide inspiration for garden designers in France and Sweden in the creation of flower beds, groves, and other garden decorations.This design consists of a design for four square parterres around a circular fountain, separated by walking paths. The designs inside the parterres consist of large scrolling motifs with stylized orientalist flowers on the outer corners, likely meant to be bordered by bushes of berries or other type of small, round fruits. The motifs in the design were meant to be created, as stated by Mollet in the text, using boxwood embroideries.
