Excerpt from Village Architecture, Being a Series of Picturesque Designs for the Inn, the Schoolhouse, Almshouses, Markethouse, Shambles, Workhouse, Parsonage, Townhall, and Church: Forming a Sequel to a Work on Rural Architectue
The excellent Essay on the Picturesque, published in the year 1798, by Sir Uvedale Price, has not, perhaps, met the attention it deserves. It is written with the truest feeling for the subject upon which he treats, as compared with the sublime and beautiful, and with an earnest recommendation to those who are about to improve real landscapes, to study the paintings of the old masters. In the course of the Work, many excellent observations on Architecture occur, and particularly on Village Architecture, an humble, but most important study, as far as regards the beauty of our country. Perhaps, in another point of view, the subject may not be uninteresting, inasmuch as the comforts and well being of our labouring poor are so intimately connected with every proposition for rendering their dwellings more attractive.
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