Grotesque .. for that is what Dr Borlase would have been encouraging stately home owners to form in their delightful gardens, and area of attractive pieces of antiquity, to stretch the onlooker s eyes into another world, distant from the order and geometry that defined the gardens of yore. Just how words get changed in meaning. Lovely pictures again.
Wasn t meant to be funny?
@chill - early paintings devised scenes of grottos, and architectural features in gardens drew inspiration from the forming of stretches of imagination, well into the areas of poetic license and into a world of dreams and faeries; books were written on the subject, and Dr Borlase went his way collecting oddly formed stonework and shells, forming the basis for some quite extraordinary features. It was much favoured amongst the gentry. It is just that this little scene reminds me of that (replace the brick with North Cornwall stone).
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