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 515
most interesting specimenswould be lost, and I should be guilty of injustice to thepowers of the art which I have so long professed to cultivate.For this reason, I will refer to a nameless specimen of im-provement in the north of England, where a villa, placed onthe edge of a goose-common,… … [Fig. 191. View from a house on the edge of a common in Yorkshire.] disfigure the neighbourhood of all great manufacturing dis-tricts. These white-washed scars, in modern landscape, forma melancholy contrast to the venerable churches and remnantsof edifices of former times, which are now suffered…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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