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The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 348

An illustration from The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating, 1851, leaf 348 — the simple and massive dressings often em- —■ _. J ployed in this style, of which Fig. jljjlj^llllljjgg^^ J 122 will convey a more accurate idea, are in much better keepingwith the character of the archi-tecture. An enriched Italian win-dow-dressing is shown in Fig.123.* If built of wood, the… … * The proportions observed in designing windows by Palladio, and tlie best of theearlier Italian architects, are as follows -.—The height of the opening double thatof the width, and the breadth of the architrave or dressing one sixth of the width.Windows on the second floor have the same breadth,…

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