Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Felix, 1836-1891 · Boston : J. R. Osgood · leaf 34
hurches w^ere erected, were found abundantly in thecountry, then covered with forests which have since disappeared.It is true that a fire — and they are frequent here — would soonhave destroyed the whole. The timber roofs of the Groote- ROTTERDAM. 29 Kerk are in good preservation; they are of no… … Fig. 4. — The Groote-Kerk, massive for the purpose for which it was intended, and there-fore the whole looks heavy and almost clumsy. This exaggera-tion of necessary solidity is, indeed, a general fault in Holland,where, less than elsewhere, we meet with dehcacy and graceful-ness. 30 HOLLAND We…
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