Villas and cottages : a series of designs prepared for execution in the United State (1857)
Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895, Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Withers, Frederick Clarke, 1828-1901 · New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, Franklin Square · leaf 67
om the surroundingscenery, and instead of grouping and harmonizing withit, asserts a riglit to carry on a separate business onits own account; and this lack of sympathy betweenthe building and its surroundings is very disagreeableto an artistic eye. Even a harsh, vulgar outline mayoften pass… … VILLAS AND COTTAGES. 55 eye being so constituted that it will be constantly heldin bondage by this striking blot of crude light, andcompelled to give it unwilling attention. When a palace, like that of Versailles, is erected inthe midst of formal gardens and terraces on a verylarge scale, and so…
Architecture, Domestic
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