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 503
[Fig. 186. Wingerworth House, before the grounds were altered.] almost a cube; and every building which partakes of this form,however great its proportions, always appears less than it reallyis, because the eye is not attracted either by its length, depth, … [Fig. 187. Wingerworth, as proposed to be improved.] or height, each being nearly equal: and it is only from asubordinate building placed near it, that we form any idea ofits real magnitude. FRAGMENTS ON THE THEORY, &c. 463 The house at Wingerworth is one of those magnificentpiles which were…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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