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the foreground or frame of the picture. So magnificent and 



complicated 



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in 



may perhaps appear ideal, but it actually 



exi-is, all hough I have never seen it 



I made the Plan on 



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To explain this, I will relate the following fact 



The Proprietor called at my 



door, »nd took me to the place, to ask my opinion about adding a new room of larg 

 dimensions to an old house. I described by a pencil sketch the general idea of this 

 annexed Plan, w ith which he was so much pleased, that he desired me the day follow- 

 tag to explain it to a gentleman, who I afterwards discovered was a clerk of the works 



The pencil sketch was all that I was ever permitted to de- 



without having 

 pt the useful les- 



em incut Architect 



Under such 



liver, from which the whole was immediately carried 



yielded me either emolument or fame, or any other advanta 



son— Not to leave a Pencil Sketch in the hands of a Clerk of the Works 



circumstances, I hope I may be excused for claiming my share in a design which I have 



often luard commended as the sole production of the late Proprietor's exquisite taste. 



He certainly made it all his own: but there was not a single idea which I had not fur- 



iushed. 



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