The villas of the ancients illustrated
A 1728 London volume printed for the author by Robert Castell, with plates engraved by Paul Fourdrinier, reconstructing Roman country houses and gardens for an antiquarian readership. The plates are measured architectural plans and elevations, with lettered keys down the margins and sites like Laurentinum drawn in fine hairline ink with grey wash for walls and shadow. A designer might borrow the clean plan-view conventions, the orderly lettered legends, and the formal layout of walled gardens and courtyards.
