Old cottages & farm-houses in Surrey / illustrated on one hundred collotype plates from photographs specially taken by W. Galsworthy Davie, with an introduction and numerous sketches by W. Curtis Green (1908)
Green, W. Curtis (William Curtis), 1875-1960, Davie, W. Galsworthy · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 20
paper in terms of measurement. Someof these old buildings are works of art, that is, they show thatintangible quality, the result of growth and life, which noartificial rules or mechanical means can achieve; those employedon the building were doing creative work, according to theircapacity for… … FIG. T,. COTTAGES AT EAST HORSLEY. 4 OLD COTTAGES AND FARM-HOUSES sidered with what to replace them. To us, such houses as theseillustrated by Mr. Davie, essentially English in design and work-manship, are a heritage ; they are gradually disappearing, andbeing replaced with our own work. If it were…
Architecture, Domestic
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