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 80
ndscape improve-ments, it is scarcely necessary to observe that the practices ofnature in her happiest works should be followed, and thereforethat the valley is the properest site for it; for, when situated onhigh ground, or on rapidly inclined planes particularly, theoperations of art, in some… … PLATE VIII. A RUSTIC BRIDGE. WATER being so essential to the beauty of cultivated sce-nery^ from its power of contrast to the surrounding verdure^, itsbrilliancy, colour, motion and sparkling reflections, as also fromother results of its mirror-like surface—the frequent use of itdemands the…
Landscape architecture · Architecture, Domestic
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