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 are made up of bundles of scrolling leaves and stylized orientalist flowers, likely meant to be bordered by streams of water or rows of bushes or boxwood. On the upper part of the design there is a semi-circular parterre, framed by pine trees, likely meant to be decorated with grass designs or boxwood embroideries. The motifs in the design were meant to be created, as stated by Mollet in the text, using boxwood embroideries.
