Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation : containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat, into rural and extensive gardens, parks, paddocks, &c., and a general system of agriculture : illustrated with great variety of copper-plates, done by the best hands, from the author's drawings
Ichnographia rustica is a 1718 English treatise on laying out country-house gardens, parks and farms, written by Stephen Switzer and printed in London for a group of booksellers for landowners and gardeners. Its pictures are small decorative headpieces, tailpieces and ornamental borders, with the prints in this set showing strapwork bands, scrolled acanthus leaves and a vase with flowers, which a designer might take as models for period ornament frames and dividers.
