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 255
hall transcribe the follow-ing passage from the Red Book of Valley Field.* To common observers, the most obvious difference betweenMr. Browns style and that of ancient gardens, was the changefrom straight to waving or serpentine lines. Hence, many ofhis followers had supposed good taste in… … [Fig. 78. View of the flower-garden at Valley Field ] This explanation is necessary to justify the plan which Irecommended for the canal in this flower-garden [see fig. 78] ; * Although I have never seen Valley Field, myself, yet it flattersme to learn, that, under the direction of my two sons, by…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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