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Italian gardens (1907)

Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 240

An illustration from Italian gardens, 1907, leaf 240
grotto overagainst it. The balustraded reservoir and its accompanying grotto still existedas recently as 1905, though the former was dry and in use as a bowlingalley, but of the fountains and statues on these higher terraces there hasbeen no sign for many a long year. This part of the gardens… … the bay, and beyond these is the colossal statue of Jupiter, which isbacked by the bosco and forms such a conspicuous feature in thelandscape. A new road, in course of construction across theseterraces (1905), threatens shortly to sweep away the last vestiges ofinterest. The Renaissance villas in…

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