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 183
e, is exactly proportionate to theextent of the edifice, and tends to impress the ideas of magni-ficence which so great a work of art is calculated to inspire.Such a plain forms an ample base for the noble structurewhich graces its extremity; the building and the plain areevidently made for each… … [Fig. 42. View from Wentworth House, before it was improved, and while the improvements were goiug forward.] Wentworth Park consists of parts, in themselves trulygreat and magnificent. The woods, the lawns, the water,and the buildings, are all separately striking; but, consideredas a whole, there…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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