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Title: Domestic architecture, being a series of designs, for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiff's lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park-gate lodges, etc., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English style of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site, the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy, the whole being the result of upwards of thirty years professional experience : with accurate estimates appended to each design
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Goodwin, Francis, 1784-1835
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic
Publisher: London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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tanceof a hundred yards; and when other trees of the same magnitude areviewed as combining- with the scene, and at the distance of two, andthen at three hundred yards, some on the lawn, and others on the bordersof the enclosures, reduced in aerial perspective, as seen in the morning,or thrown into masses of shadow, as viewed in the evening, the gleamsof light upon the horizon contrasted with the depth and umbrageoushues of the timber, form sylvan landscapes more enchanting to the eyethan are to be found in the whole scope of the rural picturesque. Allthese landscape charms assimilate with a mansion designed in the oldEnglish style of architecture, whilst a similar structure placed on a sitesurrounded only by young plantations, would be entirely out of character,a violation of fitness and deviation from the acknowledged principles ofgood taste. The estimate for this Gothic Villa, if built of brick, stuccoed . . .£3280.If with an exterior of stone to the principal front 363980. vol. r.
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