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Max Nonnenbruch - Evening by the Lake
"A Feb. 1st 1816 print (published J. Taylor, London) which exemplifies the contrast between neo-classical vs. romantic styles of landscape and architecture (or the "Grecian" and the "Gothic" as they're termed here). This engraved plate accompanied Humphry Repton's 1816 book Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening."
"Four dancing figures," c. 1915 by Frances Benjamin Johnston, a pioneering female photographer and photojournalist.
Source: shorpy.com
The Great Hall at Syon House in Middlesex, which you may recognize as the Great Hall of Hanbury Court if you've ever seen Cranford.
C. Z. Guest and her son Alexander in front of the pool at Villa Artemis, her ocean-front estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1955. Photo by Slim Aarons.
The pool at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris.
Source: vanityfair.com