Das Seifersdorfer Thal
Das Seifersdorfer Thal is a German landscape book of copper-plate views of the Seifersdorf valley garden near Dresden, compiled by Gottlieb Wilhelm Becker and edited by Johann Adolph Darnstedt in 1800 for garden admirers and travellers. The plates show tall poplars, willows, and wooded paths, with small pavilions and a monument set among trees. A designer could draw on their fine stipple and line engraving for botanical and garden-scene textures, and on the picturesque layouts of paths and pavilions in an English-style garden.
