Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Félix, Peto, John Frederick, 1854-1907 · Boston, J. R. Osgood · leaf 180
picturesque, and remarkably varied. We see that thearchitect has endeavored to produce a good effect with regard toperspective, and an outline which is striking at a distance. Figs. 92 and 93 represent a small corner-house: it is distin-guishable at a distance, and cannot be confounded with… … Fig. 92.—Corner-house in Hanover. 176 GERMANY. the upper stories; and the whole arrangement carries out aningenious idea, the conception of which is analogous with thoseto which we have already alluded, the principal aim being toattract attention to one special point, throwing into the back-ground…
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