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 479
oor; otherwise,persons sitting will not have sufficient sight of the ground, and the view willconsist, as in many old houses, of sky and the tops of trees. 438 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. effect in a room is like that of a tent, or marquee, and, in sum-mer, delightful.* But as these doors… … [Fig 13. Modern Gothic window, at BarniDgham Hall.] In making choice of Gothic bow-windows for additions toan old house, and, at the same time, to preserve the correctproportion of the whole, the apertures of the glass ought notto be too large, nor the munions too slender. We shouldselect the best…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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