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 92
height, and the depth of roof will be still more conspicuous. Having hinted this objection to Mr. Carr, he immediately assented to it; and, after various attempts to counteract this awkward effect, without any great operation, the following appeared the most simple : viz. that the present pediment… … [Fig-. 12. The west or entrance front of Welbeck altered, by raising- the earth above the lower story, and thusplacing- the house upon an eminence. The roof is also partly hid by turrets, and farther improved bychanging its colour from that of red tiles to that of blue slates.] This will serve not…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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