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 303
ied tofind that Gothic entrance built of a dark blue stone, with dressings of whiteBath stone ; and in another place, the intention of the design, page 254,was totally destroyed, by painting all the wood-work of this cottage of abright pea-green. Such, alas! is the mortifying difference betwixt… … [Fig1. 96. House at Lang-ley Park as altered.] In the following instances there is something more thanharmony of colours, there is an association from habit, whichcauses part of our pleasure or disgust. A compact red house displeases from the meanness of itsmaterials, because we suppose it to be of…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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