White Lodge, Richmond Park, Lord Sidmouth 3

The drawings [figs. 196 and 197], by which this subject is elucidated, will, perhaps, be deemed more picturesque as a park than as a garden; but it has frequently been observed, that garden scenery seldom presents subjects for a picture. Let us rather consider which of the two is most applicable to the uses of habitation-the neatness and security of a gravel-walk, or the uncleanly, pathless grass of the forest, filled with troublesome animals of every kind, and some, occasionally, dangerous.