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Italian villas and their gardens (1904)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 174

An illustration from Italian villas and their gardens, 1904, leaf 174
it hadbeen cut out by art, from the summit of which falls acascade . . . precipitating into a large theatre of water.Under this is an artificial grot wherein are curiousrocks, hydraulic organs, and all sorts of singing birds,moving and chirping by force of the water, with severalother pageants and… … VILLAS NEAR ROME many other devices for wetting the unwary spectators.... In one of these theatres of water is an Atlasspouting, . . . and another monster makes a terribleroaring with a horn ; but, above all, the representationof a storm is most natural, with such fury of rain, windand thunder as…

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