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 328
, when each front, surroundedby its court, or parterre, became a separate and entire object;but since modern gardening, by removing those separations, THEORY AND PRACTICE, &c. 287 has enabled us to view a house at the angle, and at once tosee two fronts in perspective, we become disgusted by… … [Fig 112. Corsham House.—The New Front to the North.] The east front [fig. 110], is in a correct, but heavy style ofregular architecture; and to alter the old south front in confor-mity to it, would not only require the whole to be entirelyrebuilt, but make an alteration of every room in that part…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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