An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 220
as been hitherto much more one of imitation than of imjjroved de-sign. The general character of a cottage, as distinguished from that of dwellings of ahigher class, is considered by Architects to consist in low walls, and of course low ceil-ings, in small windows rather broad than high, and m… … 198 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 343 generally employed by painters, and by poets, or other descriptive writers, •vvho wish toportray a cottage of the present day. In the like manner, a certain degree of coarsenessor homeliness of dress and manner may be said to have hitherto…
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