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The artificial grotto in Britain.
The British Isles, notorious for being cold and damp, might seem the last place where one would wish to build an artificial grotto--a man-made recess or structure, subterranean or above ground, constructed and decorated so as to imitate a natural cave. Little wonder, then, that the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, when asked by a Lincolnshire lady if he thought her grotto would not be "a pretty, cool habitation in summer" replied: "1 think it would, Madam-for a toad." (1)
The first artificial grotto recorded in Britain was perhaps the one created for John, Baron Lumley (c. 1534-1609) at Nonsuch Palace in Surrey between 1579 and 1591. The Nonsuch Grotto, or Grove of ...
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