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 803
or porch indicating an entrance; and no colonnadeor arcade suggesting the idea of elegant enjoyment. Still, we may imagine a situationwhere such a tower might be built as an ornament, as a ruin, as a prospect tower, or forthe purpose of commemorating some ancient castle, which may be supposed to… … the notice of Architects. We have here another example of low circular towers on theleft, built to abut upon and protect the foundation of the large square tower. Fig. 1423 is from Caspar Poussin. This is one of the largest edifices we have selected,and appears to form two sides of a square. Both…
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