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 191
kness ofthe walls, and the distance of the spectator from the aperture.Hence it arises, that persons are frequently disappointed, afterbuilding a house, to find that those objects which they ex-pected would form the leading features of their landscape arescarcely seen, except from such a situation… … [Figf. 46.1 It is evident, that a spectator at a can only see, throughan aperture of four feet, those objects which fall within theopening b c, in one direction, and d e in the other, neithercomprehending more than twenty or thirty degrees. But ifhe removes to a, near the windows, he will then see…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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