“Improving” Landscapes: Drainage-pipes (purely for ornamental purposes) in Windsor and other Forests. Interestingly, this plate, unlike the other three on this page, has the style found in late twentieth- and twenty-first century comic books and graphic novels. And of course, the notion of technology-as-beauty that grew out of Ruskinian emphasis that form must follow function has appeared in much architecture and sculpture. Think of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, or for that matter any exposed heating pipes and electric conduits painted in bright primary colors. Source: Fun (27 March 1878): 130. Click on image to enlarge it. — George P. Landow
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- “Improving” Landscapes (complete page)
- A few nice chimney stacks at our seaside resorts
- Capital centre ornament for a flower-garden
- Nice Soap Factories here and there on the Swiss mountains
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