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Italian villas and their gardens (1904)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 182

An illustration from Italian villas and their gardens, 1904, leaf 182
r the wealth of its garden-archi-tecture. The grounds are entered by two splendidstone gateways, the upper one being on an axis with thevilla. A grass avenue leads from this gate to an archof triumph, a rusticated elevation with niches andstatues, surmounted by the inscription Horatius… … VILLAS NEAR ROME overgrown by shrubs and creepers, with busts andother fragments of antique sculpture set here and thereon its projecting ledges. This natural cliff sustains anupper plateau, where there is an oblong artificial water(called the lake) enclosed in rock-work and sur-rounded by a grove…

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