Designs for villas and other rural buildings ... : together with a memoir of the author and an introductory essay, containing remarks on the defects of modern architecture, and an investigation of the style best adapted for the dwellings of present times
Designs for villas and rural buildings by the English architect Edmund Aikin, published in London by Weale in 1835 with an introductory essay on modern architecture for country gentlemen and households of the period. The four aquatint-style plates show two-storey stuccoed villas drawn in soft watercolour washes, rotated sideways on the page, with trees, lawns and a curving drive around them. A designer might take their symmetrical sash-window fronts, recessed porches and tinted landscape settings as models for restrained Regency and early Victorian house facades.
