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 802
that central resting place for the eye, which is essential to produce the effect of a whole.Let him also imagine a tower of equal height, raised over the lower mass to the right ofthe picture, and he will find the idea of a whole materially lessened; simply, becausethere would then be no centre to… … of Ganymede. It has a very picturesque appearance ; and here, again, the high centraltower unites the whole, and gives a pleasing sky line. The termination of such buildingsby a massive round tower based a little below the rest of the /^ _ 142 building, gives, we think, thelook of stability and…
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