Pretty places that never were with imaginings up by Italian artist Gaetano Landi. Born in Italy he published “Architectural Decorations: A Periodical Work of Original Designs Invented from the Egyptian, the Greek, the Roman, the Etruscan, the Attic, the Gothic &c for Exterior and Interior Decoration” in 1810 from which these plates are taken.

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Hand colored plate. 1810.
Hand colored plate. 1810. Image © Skinner Auctions Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2386/lots/172

 

Large garden building or summer house in a Chinese style.
Large garden building or summer house in a Chinese style. Unnumbered plate. Image © RIBA Collections. Fair use license. via https://www.architecture.com/image-library/ribapix/image-information/poster/large-garden-building-or-summer-house-in-a-chinese-style/posterid/R
“Grand Indian Hall.” 1810. Image © Iskander Books and used with permission of Iskander Books. Artwork itself in the public domain. Fair use license. Many thanks to Eric Veldhuizen at Iskander Books for sending me this copy of the image which does not show their watermark as the the one I found when I first did this post had.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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