. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 93. Labyrinth at Choisy-le-Roi. (Blondel) j * <6 ! * *i * r« ?. Fig. 94. Labyrinth at Chantilly. (Blondel) by Swalm Renkin between i675*and 1682,.f It is said tohave cost the equivalent of ,£8,000,000 and containedfourteen water-wheels driving 253 pumps, some ofwhich worked at a distance of three-quarters of a mile. The labyrinth was destroyed in 1775 and its site isnow occupied by the Bosquet de la Reine. The Dial-garden at Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames,is laid out on the plan of the Versailles labyrinth, but
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 93. Labyrinth at Choisy-le-Roi. (Blondel) j * <6 ! * *i * r« ?. Fig. 94. Labyrinth at Chantilly. (Blondel) by Swalm Renkin between i675*and 1682,.f It is said tohave cost the equivalent of ,£8,000,000 and containedfourteen water-wheels driving 253 pumps, some ofwhich worked at a distance of three-quarters of a mile. The labyrinth was destroyed in 1775 and its site isnow occupied by the Bosquet de la Reine. The Dial-garden at Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames,is laid out on the plan of the Versailles labyrinth, but inplace of the statuary groups are thirty-nine sun-dials, eachhaving its motto or epigram. Adjoining it is a maze oforiginal and ingenious design. The Versailles example was only one of several well-known mazes which existedin or around Paris at thattime. Evelyn, who spentsome years in Paris, from1643 onwards, remarks onthe design and trimness ofthe box-hedge designs in thegardens of the Luxembourgand on the labyrinth ofcypresse at the Tuileries,no doubt designed by Du Cerceau (Fig. 92). In another account of the Tuilerieslabyrinth, however,
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