Fig. 92.—Labyrinth at the Tuileries. (After Du Cerceau.)
In most European countries the fashion had obtained a hold either before or during the seventeenth century, and we can usually be sure of finding a few drawings of mazes in any horticultural book of that period.
Figs. 97 and 98.—Mazes by G. A. Boeckler, 1664.
Figs. 95 and 96. Maze Designs by André Mollet, 1651.
[Figs. 95 and 96] show two examples given in "Le Jardin de Plaisir," by André Mollet, the royal gardener at Stockholm, in 1651. [Figs. 97] to [106] show some very ingenious designs selected from a great number which accompany the drawings of castles and great houses in Germany and elsewhere, contained in the "Architectura curiosa nova" of G. A. Boeckler, 1664.
Figs. 99 and 100.—Mazes by G. A. Boeckler, 1664.