title: Out of Sight: Urban Art / Abandoned Spaces
author:  RomanyWG 
description: All in all a great book with lots for well photographed art in derelict places. The accompanying text gives an interesting insight into the intentions,feelings and criticisms of the author and a selection of the artists
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  The Deserted Mansion  
    
  
  
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  # The Deserted Mansion
  
  
  ### Elizabeth Gaskell
  
  
  
  
  
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  A few years ago, a picture appeared in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy,
  which peculiarly impressed my imagination; it represented an ancient ruinous
  dwelling, surrounded by dilapidated gardens set in somber woods. The venerable
  trees, the moat filled with nettle and rubbish, the broken fences, green
  stagnant waters, the gabled, turreted, many-windowed, mouldering mansion, a
  perfect medley of chaotic architecture. The visible silence, the spirit of
  supreme desolation brooding over the precincts, filled my mind with
  involuntary sadness; while fancy conjured up strange, wild tales of other
  days, in connexion with the scene. I could not shake off the belief that
  reality was portrayed on the canvass; and writing 