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 431
tecture seemsto have grown from the rudest excavations of Trogloditesavages, to the most beautiful forms discovered in the templesof Salsetta, of Elora, and Elephantis. When these natural subterraneous vaults were imitated [Fig. 134. Imaginary sketch, exhibiting1 the principle of perpendicular… … DESIGNS FOR THE PAVILLON, &c. 891 above ground, in buildings of later date, the same constructionprevailed; and, therefore, both in the arches and domes ofthe Indian style, we observe the same principle of perpen-dicular pressure [see fig. 134]. APPLICATION OF INDIAN ARCHITECTURE. Having…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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