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Cottage residences, or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds adapted to North America (1863)

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, author · New York : John Wiley · leaf 46

An illustration from Cottage residences, or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds adapted to North America, 1863, leaf 46 — larity , Symmetry, artistical irregularity . There are irregular buildings without symmetry, but in all irregular compositions entirely satisfactory, it will generally be found that there is a kind of hidden proportion which one half of the whole bears to the other, and it is this balance which… … / [Figure 1.] represented, which is full of irregularity, is also symmetrical, for if we divide it by the imaginary line a , the portion on the right balances that on the left ; that is, though not in shape, yet in bulk and in the mass of composition ; while in Fig. 2, which is a uniform or regular…

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