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 115
;( and then, by their respective dimensions, we judge of the comparative distance. This effect, the drawing, No. XII. [our figs. 27 and 28], will elucidate, in which the sheep on1 one side the water appear to be larger than the cows on the1 other. The bay or creek may be hid by shrubs, which willc… … SKETCHES AND HINTS. 75 6 the distance], I must take the liberty to describe some6 effects in perspective, not, I believe, generally attended to in6 gardening. Perspective, in painting, is known to be of two kinds; the first is called linear perspective, and is thati by which objects appear to…
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