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THE GARDENS OF ITALY. 



should be devoted to it, omitting, of course, " the base and mechanical part " of mere 

 building as beneath a gentleman's notice. The course of English house-building throughout 



the eighteenth century reflects this order of ideas. We see 

 Italians like Leoni and Borra brought over to guide milord 

 in reconstructing his ancestral seat. Among the crowd of 

 dilettante 

 travellers, 

 came, in 1755, 

 a young, ener- 

 getic and ver- 

 satile Scotch 

 architect, who 

 was destined 

 to modify pro- 

 foundly the 

 current of 

 Palladian wor- 

 ship. Robert 

 Adam thought 

 for himself, 

 and by native 

 genius estab- 

 lished a fresh 

 tradition in 

 architecture. 

 On gardening, 

 however, he 

 never seems 

 to have really 

 concentrated 

 his mind. 

 Vaguely in- 

 fluenced by the coming naturalistic school, he drew land- 

 scapes in a romantic, Gainsborough-like fashion, and never 

 seems to have fully reasoned out the relation of house 

 and garden. Valleys and hills too often suggest to him 



only vague dreams of castle-building, of ruinous walls and bridges and of great circular 

 dungeon towers shadowed by piers and arches and perched on craggy cliffs. 



19. 



DETAIL OF CENTRE BAY OF GARDEN FRONT. 



The simblhid is a later insertion. 



l8. THE WATER TOWER AT 

 THE VILLA ATTREE, BRIGHTON. 



None 



ARK BRIGHTON 

 SIR CHARLES BARRY- ARCHITECT 1829 

 PLAN -OF PRIMCIPAL-TLOOR- 

 AND SITE PLAN SHOWING-GARDE N-B-i.- 



2O. SITE AND GARDEN PLANS. 



