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 589
the boundary of the park,and may be as well seen from many parts of the public road. Fourthly. The road passes along the side of a sunk fence,and destroys all privacy in the south apartments, which areexposed to every person coming to the house. Fifthly, and lastly. The immediate and sharp descent… … [Fig. 225. Approach to Wobum Abbey, as it has been altered.] along the great glade, which is terminated by the island inDrakelow-pond, and which, from its length, and the size ofthe trees, is very magnificent, the road winds among somelarge oaks, betwixt whose lofty stems the house first…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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