The Theory Part I 



thofe that you can go quite round and Figures that are fet 

 in Niches, which are finifli'd on the Fore-part only : There 

 are, likewiie, Bufts, Terms, Half-length Figures j Figures 

 half as big as the Life, and thofe bigger than the Life, called 

 Colojfal, placed either on regular Pedeftals, or fuch as are 

 more flender, tapering, and hollowed, or on flat Plinths ; 

 not to mention the Figures of Animals, which fometimes 

 adorn Cafcades i as do alfo Bafs-Relievos, and Mask-heads. 



These Figures reprefent all the feveral Deities, and illu- 

 ftrious Per fons of Antiquity, which fliould be placed pro- 

 perly in Gardens, fetting the River-Gods, as the Naiader^ 

 Rhers^ and Tritons^ in the Middle of Fountains and Bafons j 

 and thofe of the Woods, as Syhanes, Fauner, and Vryadf, 

 in the Groves : Sacrifices, Bacchanals, and Childrens Sports, 

 are likewife reprefented in Bafs-Relievo, upon the Vafes and 

 Pedeftals, which may be adorn'd with Feftoons, Foliage, 

 Moldings, and other Ornaments. 



The ufual Places of Figures and Vafes are along the Pa- 

 lifades, in the Front, and upon the Sides of a Parterre j in 

 the Niches and Sinkings of Horn-beam, or of Lattice-work 

 made for that Purpofe. In Groves, they are placed in the 

 Center of a Star, or S. Andrew's Crofs ; in the Spaces be- 

 tween the Walks of a Goofe-foot, in the Middle of Halls 

 and Cabinets, among the Trees and Arches of a Green- 

 Gallery, and at the Head of a Row of Trees, or Palifades, 

 that ftand free and detached. They are alfo put at the lower 

 End of Walks and Viftas, to fet them off the better j in 

 Porticos, and Arbors of Trellis-work ; in Bafons, Caf- 

 cades, &c. In general, they do well every where and you 

 can fcarce have too many of them in a Garden : But, as in 

 the Bufmefs of Sculpture, it Ihould be excellent, as well as 

 in Painting and Poefy (which are its two Sifters) I think it 

 more advifable for a private Gentleman to be content with- 

 out Figures, than to take up with fuch as are but indiffe- 

 rent, which do but create a continual Longing after this 

 Per fedion i the Expence of which is fit only for Princes, 

 and great Minifters. 



The Ends and Extremities of a Park are beautified with 

 Pavilions of Mafonry, which the French call Belvederes, or 



' " Pavi- 



