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 181
pposite hills; and in this instance itmay appear surprising, that the removal of a few yards ofearth was sufficient to display a vast extent of distantprospect. But this effect must depend on the natural shape of thesurface near the eye; for example, if the shape be that of theupper line [fig. 41]… … part not shaded will not be sufficient to shew the valley; andit is not always desirable to see the whole surface; on the con-trary, it is better that a part should be concealed than thatthe whole should be shewn foreshortened, which is alwaysthe case in looking down or up an inclined plane.* The…
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