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 84
789, the property annexed to the house consisted of little more than sixtyacres: it has since been augmented, by several purchases, to so great anamount, that my plan, and indeed the house itself, are on too small a scalefor the present size of the estate; which extends two miles in length fromthe… … [Fig. 6. Rivenhall Place, in its gloomy and sequestered state.] appearance of being low and damp. [See fig. 6.] Theinterference of art, in former days, has, indeed, rendered the1 improvement and restoration of its natural beauties a workf of some labour; yet, by availing ourselves of those natural…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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