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 299
supporters of a heavy roof, or even acanvas awning, it looks as if the taste of the country wereverging to its decline; since shade might be obtained by thesame awning supported by iron, if architectural forms andprojections are to be despised,* or discarded. I should therefore suppose that no… … mon mistake to suppose a thing will look light by being slen-der ; if it be not equal to its office by its apparent substance,it will look weak, not light; but the lattice-work is supposedto support nothing, and may therefore be of any dimen-sions, and, being always painted, it will be invisible at…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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