View of a an artificial lake bordered by topiary, Parc de Marly-le-Roi, France

People:

Geoffrey James (photographer)
Louis XIV, King of France (patron)
Jules Hardouin Mansart (landscape architect)
André Le Nôtre (garden designer)
Charles Le Brun (garden designer)

Title:

View of a an artificial lake bordered by topiary, Parc de Marly-le-Roi, France

Date:

1981

Description:

- The terraces of the former terrace garden of the park of Marly-le-Roi appear in photographs PH1982:0808:009 and PH1982:0808:010 (Oxford Companion to Gardens, pp. 355-357).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 8.6 x 26.6 cm sheet: 12.2 x 29.7 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0808:010

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

imprinted and dated - in typescript, in the table of contents, in grey ink, c.r.: with title and "1981" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l.: "X"; and l.r.: "9/20"

Location:

France

Subject:

landscape architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

garden
trees
artificial lake
evergreens
park (recreation area)
topiary
French garden
terrace garden

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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