The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of the late Humphry Repton, esq., being his entire works on these subjects : ...with historical and scientific introduction, a systematic analysis, a biographical notice, notes, and copious alphabetical index (1840)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman · leaf 108
of the venerable pile, that it might shoot up in fresh towers from its top. All natural shapes of ground must necessarily fall under6 one of these descriptions, viz., convex, concave, plane, or in-i dined plane, as represented in the following sections, plate No. X. [our fig. 24.] I will suppose it… … [Fig- 21. Sections to shew (be manner of adapting houses to different natural shapes of ground.] * descent from the house every way. If the ground be natu-i rally convex, or what is generally called a knoll, the size of the house must be adapted to the size of the knoll :* this is * There is a…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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