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Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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your dutiful and affec-tionate daughter, Elizabeth. STOKE-FARM, THE SEAT OF THE EARL OF SEFTON. Tins charming residence may betruly termed a ferine ornte. Its si-tuation is favourable, and nature hasbeen so far only assisted as to permitits natural beauties to spread overthe demesne in uninterrupted ease.The woods, shrubberies, and gar-dens, immediately about the house,are so judiciously arranged as topresent many interesting points ofview; laying the house partially opento the south, and screening it com-pletely to the north and east, on which side the offices are situatedand planted out, with the exceptionof some portions, that add to the ge-neral effect of the entire scene. Our View is of the Front from thelawn, on which side are some of theprincipal apartments, elegantly fittedup, the windows extending to thefloor, forming door-ways, that openbeneath a spacious verandah, alongwhich flowering shrubs twine in richluxuriance, exhibiting, when seenfrom the apartments, natural festoons
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FLUCTUATIONS IN THE FASHION OF HATS. 3 of the richest colours. The lawn infront is so judiciously laid out withevergreens intermixed with deciduousshrubs, that the greater portion isembellished with rich foliage in thewinter season: combined with theverandah, or rather corridor, it formsa pleasing winter walk. Here is a small park of about fortyacres, through which there is a plea-sant drive to the lodge, which ispretty and chaste. It is renderedpleasing by the deep thatched roof,which, overhanging the dwelling,forms a pretty rustic colonnade. The supports are unbarked stems of trees,around which grow the rose and thejessamine. The estate was purchased by thelate Lord Sefton of a Mr. Johnson.The house was then a mere farm,but served as an occasional resi-dence. The whole of the alterations,both in the house and grounds, havebeen effected by the present nobleowner; and they have been guidedby such taste and judgment, thatStoke-Farm now forms as delightfula retreat as can be desired. FL

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