Chiswick House: The Conservatory

Jessie Macgregor (1847-1919)

1914

Watercolour drawing

Source: Macgregor, facing p. 182

The grounds of this "famous Villa" built by Lord Burlington in the early eighteenth century are full of interest, is still a great tourist draw, but nothing in them excited Macgregor more tham the conservatory, with its ranked camellias "laden with blossoms — rose, scarlet and white — the effect of the long perspective of the conservatory, studied from either extremity, is really wonderful" (182).

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