Garten-Verschönerungen, oder, Entwürfe zu geschmackvollen Gartengebäuden und Zierden : als Portale, Denkmahle, Tempel, Obelisken, Ruinen, Einsiedelyen, Brücken, Lustschiffen, Ruhesitzen u.s.w.
A German pattern book of garden buildings by Benedict Piringer, published in Vienna in 1815 for garden designers and patrons. Its plates show elevations of pavilions, gateways, bridges, obelisks and ruins set among trees, each with its ground plan drawn beneath in plain black line. A designer could take from them the basic vocabulary of early nineteenth-century garden architecture: simple geometric plans, classical pediments, and picturesque ruins shown as they would sit in a landscape.
