Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)
Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 34
kneeling slave, black but comely,is at Norton Conyers in Yorkshire, and a like figure is in thelovely garden of Guys Cliff in Warwickshire. Again we find gleaming marble, though the use of that substance requiresjudgment and care, and the situation must be appropriate toemphasise and yet to… … >*Jfi«*Sift- THE GARDEN GATES, CHISWICK HOUSE. the black slave kneeling to support an urn at Melbourne,Derbyshire, and at Renisliaw Hall, in the same county, twoleaden centurions keep watch at the approach to one of thegardens. Leaden figures such as these have an attraction noteasy to explain;…
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