VIEW IN A CHINESE GARDEN. IT is curious to remark, that in a country where good taste appears to be almost unknown, it should be so conspicuously displayed in the art of dressing the surface of the earth. It must nevertheless be acknowledged, that while in every other liberal or elegant art the taste of the Chinese is either puerile or barbarous in the extreme, in ornamental gardening they have shewn themselves capable of instructing nations greatly their superiors in every other species of intellectual culture. colour print from the book ' A Picturesque Voyage to India by Way of China ' by
VIEW IN A CHINESE GARDEN. IT is curious to remark, that in a country where good taste appears to be almost unknown, it should be so conspicuously displayed in the art of dressing the surface of the earth. It must nevertheless be acknowledged, that while in every other liberal or elegant art the taste of the Chinese is either puerile or barbarous in the extreme, in ornamental gardening they have shewn themselves capable of instructing nations greatly their superiors in every other species of intellectual culture. colour print from the book ' A Picturesque Voyage to India by Way of China ' by Thomas Daniell, and William Daniell, London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Daniell by Thomas Davison, 1810. The Daniells' original watercolors for the scenes depicted herein are now at the Yale Center for British Art, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts,
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