The architect : a series of original designs, for domestic and ornamental cottages and villas, connected with landscape gardening, adapted to the United States : illustrated by drawings of ground plots, plans, perspective views, elevations, sections, and details (1851)
Ranlett, William H · New York : Dewitt & Davenport · leaf 186
SHADOWS. The chief element of beauty in Architecture is shadow ; deprive any structure of its light and shade, and it becomes tame, cheerless, and unattractive ; yet so palpable a truth appears to have been hardly recognized, even by those whose works show it most palpably. It is said that Sir John…
Ranlett, William H. -- Portraits · Architecture, Domestic -- United States · Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans · Landscape gardening -- United States
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