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 565
from theprincipal floor, by a wood planted in quincunx rows. Thiswood was originally intended to have been kept low, but ithas now outgrown its intention, and not only hides all view ofthe water, but also the distant prospect of the forest, hangingdown to the banks of the lake; and, in the horizon,… … [Fig. 212. View from the portico of a villa near Loudon, before it was altered.] some idea of the magnificent landscape which this villa com-mands. It is supposed to be taken from the principal front,and shews a part of the alteration proposed in the parterre to FRAGMENTS ON THE THEORY, &c. 525…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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