Herbert James Draper Ulysses and the Sirens

Herbert James Draper Ulysses and the SirensHerbert James Draper LamiaHerbert James Draper Lament for Icarus
finished taking his The Patrician was not a gardens kind of person. But some of his predecessors had been, and Lord Vetinari never changed or destroyed anything if there was no logical reason to do so. He maintained the little zoo, and the racehorse stable, and even recognized that the gardens themselves were of extreme historic interest because this was so obviously the case.
They had been laid out by Bloody Stupid Johnson.
Many great landscape gardeners have gone down in history and been remembered in a very solid way by the magnificent parks and gardens that they designed with almost god-like power and foresightexercise and, besides, it gave the whole thing a pleasing symmetry.He called it 'the-turning-the-wheel-with-pedals-and-another-wheel-machine'. Lord Vetinari was also at work.Normally, he was in the Oblong Office or seated in his plain wooden chair at the foot of the steps in the palace of Ankh-Morpork; there was an ornate throne at the top of the steps, covered with dust. It was the throne of Ankh-Morpork and was, indeed, made of gold. He'd never dreamed of sitting on it.But it was a nice day, so he was working in the garden.Visitors to Ankh-Morpork were often surprised to find that there were some interesting gardens attached to the Patrician's Palace.