PLATE I.
Plan and elevation of a hut, to be built with trunks oftrees and irregular timber. The inside walls may belined with moss, and covered on the top with thatch. It isintended
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Where Severn, Trent, or Thames’s Ouzy side
Pours the smooth Current of their easy Tide,
Each will require a sameneſs to the Spot,
For this a Cell, a Cascade or a Grot;
The Moſs, or gliding Streams productive Store,
To grace the Building on the Verdant Shore,
There the rough Tuscan, or the Rustic fix,
Or Pebbles, Shells, or calcin’d Matter mix,
The frozen Isicles resembled form,
Or Sea-green Weed your Grotto must adorn.
Art of Architecture, a Poem.
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GROTESQUE ARCHITECTURE;
OR,
RURAL AMUSEMENT:
CONSISTING OF
PLANS, ELEVATIONS, AND SECTIONS,
FOR
HUTS, RETREATS, SUMMER AND WINTER HERMITAGES,
TERMINARIES,
CHINESE, GOTHIC, AND NATURAL GROTTOS,
CASCADES, BATHS, MOSQUES, MORESQUE PAVILIONS,
GROTESQUE AND RUSTIC SEATS, GREEN-HOUSES, &c.
PLANS, ELEVATIONS, AND SECTIONS,
FOR
HUTS, RETREATS, SUMMER AND WINTER HERMITAGES,
TERMINARIES,
CHINESE, GOTHIC, AND NATURAL GROTTOS,
CASCADES, BATHS, MOSQUES, MORESQUE PAVILIONS,
GROTESQUE AND RUSTIC SEATS, GREEN-HOUSES, &c.
Many of which may be executed with
Flints, Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and
Roots of Trees.
THE WHOLE CONTAINING
TWENTY-EIGHT NEW DESIGNS,
WITH SCALES TO EACH.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
AN EXPLANATION,
WITH THE METHOD OF EXECUTING THEM.
AN EXPLANATION,
WITH THE METHOD OF EXECUTING THEM.
By WILLIAM WRIGHTE, Architect.
A NEW EDITION.
LONDON:
Printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar; for
J. TAYLOR,
AT THE ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, NO. 59, HIGH HOLBORN.