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 804
work of the fourteenth or fifteenthcentury ; but whether the portico be ancient, or merely the addition of the painter, wecannot determine. The scenery is similar in the original picture. In calling theattention of Architects to the sky line of irregular buildings, we do not mean that thetipper… … Fig. 1425 is from Nicolas Poussin. The arcade, over which there appears to be aniipjicr terrace, has a grand and imposing effect, and the lower terrace unites the wholewilh the surrounding scenery. The round tower biings the pile to the pyramidal shape. 14-23
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