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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 469

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 469 — We follow mostEnglish writers in calling this style Elizabethan, because itcame into use in England during the reign of Elizabeth, thoughit really originated in Italy, at the revival of the arts in thefifteenth century, and thence spread all over Europe. It isknown as the Omque (Jento^ or Fifteenth… … ^-^: TKEAT^rENT OF INTEKIORS. 391 critically, or in a philosophical point of view, we cannot denythat it often violates all rules of art, and indulges in all man-ner of caprices. Mere architects and pedantic jndges haveaccordingly condemned it in all ages. Viewed, however, as astyle addressed to…

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