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 302
women often excel the most learned men; and although THEORY AND PRACTICE, &c. 261 While treating on the subject of ornaments and decora-tions, I must not omit to mention colours, since impropercolouring may destroy the intended effect of the most correctdesign, and render ridiculous what would… … [Fig. 95. House in Laugley Park, the architecture of which is unworthy of its situation.] advisable, either to remove it, or to hide it by plantations. Itherefore recommended a Doric portico to cover the front;and thus a building formerly unsightly, because out of cha-racter with the park, became…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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