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 494
vestigations, I have accidentally discovered certain appear-ances, from which I have derived some facility in colouringlandscape. Having placed a piece of dark cloth on a wall opposite tothe light, I fastened a sheet of white paper in the middle of it;this I looked at through a prism held across my… … Green of grey, terminating in blue, as I have shewn at c, in theannexed sketch [fig. 180]. This I observed under variouslights, and remarked that, before sun-rise, no red appeared inthe brown, and no violet in the grey shades; but they wereexactly the same tints which I use in shading and finishing…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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