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 195
bank is round ;but if sloped to the shaded line, less of the bank will bereflected in the water, and the quantity of sky seen in thewater, will be from b to d ; and as the brilliancy of still water x REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. depends on the sky reflected on its surface, the quantity… … [Fig-. 50. View of the Thames from Purley, in the morning-.] the sun was in the east, the landscape appeared to consist ofwood, water, and distant country, with few artificial accompa-niments ; but in the evening, when the sun was in the west,objects presented themselves which were in the…
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