History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 83
ses (Plate IV.) are lacquered, painted, and gilded,and it is doubtful whether the palaces mentionedby the ancient historians were anything more thanwooden structures thus gaudily ornamented. Sir William Chambers says, that some considera-tion is due to a race of men who, separated from thepolished… … CHINESE PAGODA & DW E L LI.N G HOUS E. CHAPTER VII. AMERICAN OR ABORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE. The discovery of architectural ruins in Central Ame-rica of immense extent, and of a style perfectly anoma-lous, excited throughout Europe and in our own coun-try the most extravagant expectations. The…
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