. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial at Hampton Court. Pedestals and Gnomons 217 In 1895 ^ beautiful dial was designed and set upby Messrs. Brewill and Baily at Whatton Housenear Loughborough. It is here shown. A moulded. Sun-dial at Whatton House, near Loughborough. circular top is carried by four draped figures of theMuses, — Clio, Euterpe, Erata, and Urania. Thisgroup resembles the dial in The Dane John atCanterbury. The exact size of figures for a sun- 218 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial at Hampton Court. Pedestals and Gnomons 217 In 1895 ^ beautiful dial was designed and set upby Messrs. Brewill and Baily at Whatton Housenear Loughborough. It is here shown. A moulded. Sun-dial at Whatton House, near Loughborough. circular top is carried by four draped figures of theMuses, — Clio, Euterpe, Erata, and Urania. Thisgroup resembles the dial in The Dane John atCanterbury. The exact size of figures for a sun- 218 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday dial must be guided by the extent of the garden. Ido not like colossal figures even in lead, still less doI like to see displayed ** A little goddikin No bigger than a skittle pin, as Cotton wrote. On page 414 is shown the dialat Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, described by in his Formal Garden as a moulded cir-cular top carried by four draped female figures, whostand on a square pedestal, the angles of which aredecorated with rams heads and swags of fruits andflowers. Perhaps the camera may be held at fault,but certainly these Four Seasons seem dumpylittle goddikinesses. An appropriate pedestal for a substantial dial in abusy town is standing in the enclosure of the gas-works, northeast corner of Twent
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