Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. (1823)
Papworth, John Buonarotti, 1775-1847 · London : R. Ackermann · leaf 68
ich is not rugged and rude, is not picturesque;whereas beauty and fitness are its indispensable characteristics:it exists wherever these qualities are combined, and ceaseswhere they are not. The picturesque ends at the point wherenature or art is distorted or exaggerated; where nature herselfis… … PLANTATION SKAT. 53 PLATE V. A PLANTATION SEAT. THIS design is adapted to such parts of a plantation near thehouse as are carefully decorated; it is a low sheltered seat, inwhich proportion and embellishment have been studied, for thepurpose of introducing more valuable materials and workman-ship…
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