COVE

“She kissed the white house in the photograph. She gloated over the wildness of the landscape, in which the villa stood out, solitary, majestic. Palms, olives, cypress—a deep gorge cutting through the heart of the picture—mountains romantically remote—one white crest in the farthest distance—a foreground of tumbled crags and threads of running water” (Braddon, 3).

Herman van Swanevelt, and Dutch. View of an Italian Villa. etching, c. 1600 - 1655. The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.); Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.14817830. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.