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vince of the architecture than of gardening: works 

 of sculpture are not like buildings, objects familiar in 

 scenes of cultivated nature; but vases, statues, and 

 termini are usual appendages to a considerable ed- 

 ifice; as such they may attend the mansion, and 

 trespass a little upon the garden, provided they are 

 not carried so far in it as to lose their connection with 

 the structure. The flat form and the road are also 

 appurtenances to the house; all these may therefore 

 be adapted to its form, and the environs will thereby 

 acquire a degree of regularity; but to give it to the 

 objects of nature, only on account of their proximity 

 to others which are calculated to receive it, is, at 

 best, a refinement. " 



Price thought the principles of Claude should be 

 followed as a guide. Lord Windham, in a letter to 

 Humphrey Repton, asks very pertinently: 



"Does the pleasure we receive from the view of 

 parks and gardens result from their affording sub- 

 jects that would appear to advantage in a picture?" 

 and answers, "That places are not to be laid out with 

 a view to their appearance in a picture, but to the 

 use and enjoyment of them in real life. " 



This is true in the sense that the aims of the designs 

 of the painter and the landscape gardener cannot be 

 said to be identical nor that the position of a tree well 

 placed on the lawn would necessarily be suited to the 

 design of the painted picture. It should be enough to 



