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cognizant of changes occurring in English gardening. During his stay in England in 1753, he
visited the park at Stowe, which was the best known, and over a few decades was the site of
changes illustrating the development of new ideas in gardening. The Łazienki Park was given
a traditional form sińce it had been taken over by the King, and did not change in the period of
intensive work in 1774. It was not until 1775-1779 that new motifs occurred with Kamsetzer’s
designs and later, when bridges, a gate and smali Chinese galleries were introduced in
a version which was then popular in Europę, bąsed on the illustrated publications of William
Chambers. At Łazienki there were dwelling and amusement pavilions, service and out-build-
ings. There were no artificial ruins, gloriettes, bowers, ancient temples, peasants’ cottages
with luxurious interiors or sentimental monuments. With the passage of time Łazienki began
to take on the properties of an English park. Trees were morę widely scattered over the lawns,
picturesąue views created, asymmetrical layouts introduced, and ponds of irregular shape
designed and dug. The year 1784, when a considerable reconstruction was started on the
Pałace on the Island, was a turning point. At that time the park began to undergo greater
changes. It was then that the “Partie a 1’anglaise”, i.e. a part of the garden in the English style,
was designed. In the following years the entire park took on this character. Gardening work
was in those years supervised by Jan Chrystian Schuch, who, after studies in Dresden, the
Netherlands, England and France, came to Poland in 1775 and was initially employed by the
wife of Marshal Lubomirski at Mokotów. In 1779, he laid out an English park at Dęblin for
Michał Wandalin Mniszech and in 1781 he was appointed the steward of the King’s gardens in
Warsaw.
Moszyński’s treatise had not been published, but its theses and recommendations became
indirectly widespread in another form. This was the work of Szymon Bogumił Zug, who drew
plans illustrating Moszyński’s ideas, annexed to the text of the treatise. It does not seem that
Moszyński introduced Zug to landscape gardening. Instead, it should be believed that the
already formulated predilections of the architect encouraged Moszyński to ask him to work
with him. Perhaps the new trends in garden layout came simultaneously from different
directions. In 1771-1772 Zug was abroad; on that trip he might have had an opportunity to
Warsaw, draft design of the house of W. Arndt,
S.B. Zug, 1787
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visited the park at Stowe, which was the best known, and over a few decades was the site of
changes illustrating the development of new ideas in gardening. The Łazienki Park was given
a traditional form sińce it had been taken over by the King, and did not change in the period of
intensive work in 1774. It was not until 1775-1779 that new motifs occurred with Kamsetzer’s
designs and later, when bridges, a gate and smali Chinese galleries were introduced in
a version which was then popular in Europę, bąsed on the illustrated publications of William
Chambers. At Łazienki there were dwelling and amusement pavilions, service and out-build-
ings. There were no artificial ruins, gloriettes, bowers, ancient temples, peasants’ cottages
with luxurious interiors or sentimental monuments. With the passage of time Łazienki began
to take on the properties of an English park. Trees were morę widely scattered over the lawns,
picturesąue views created, asymmetrical layouts introduced, and ponds of irregular shape
designed and dug. The year 1784, when a considerable reconstruction was started on the
Pałace on the Island, was a turning point. At that time the park began to undergo greater
changes. It was then that the “Partie a 1’anglaise”, i.e. a part of the garden in the English style,
was designed. In the following years the entire park took on this character. Gardening work
was in those years supervised by Jan Chrystian Schuch, who, after studies in Dresden, the
Netherlands, England and France, came to Poland in 1775 and was initially employed by the
wife of Marshal Lubomirski at Mokotów. In 1779, he laid out an English park at Dęblin for
Michał Wandalin Mniszech and in 1781 he was appointed the steward of the King’s gardens in
Warsaw.
Moszyński’s treatise had not been published, but its theses and recommendations became
indirectly widespread in another form. This was the work of Szymon Bogumił Zug, who drew
plans illustrating Moszyński’s ideas, annexed to the text of the treatise. It does not seem that
Moszyński introduced Zug to landscape gardening. Instead, it should be believed that the
already formulated predilections of the architect encouraged Moszyński to ask him to work
with him. Perhaps the new trends in garden layout came simultaneously from different
directions. In 1771-1772 Zug was abroad; on that trip he might have had an opportunity to
Warsaw, draft design of the house of W. Arndt,
S.B. Zug, 1787
33