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 115
and then, by their respective dimensions, we judge of the comparative distance. This effect, the drawing, No. XII. [our figs. 27 and 28], will elucidate, in which the sheep on * one side the water appear to be larger than the cows on the other. The bay or creek may be hid by shrubs, which will give… … SKETCHES AND HINTS. 75 the distance], I must take the liberty to describe some1 effects in perspective, not, I believe, generally attended to in gardening. Perspective, in painting, is known to be of two kinds; the first is called linear perspective, and is that by which objects appear to diminish…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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