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 268
s seen part of the colonnade that joins the east wing to the bodyof the house: from the general character of this scenery, wecannot but suppose this to be a fragment of some ruinedGrecian temple, and no part of a modern inhabited palace.Hence it is evident, that the mind cannot associate the… … [Fig-. 82. Scene in the grounds at Attingham.] Another mistake of the admirers of painters landscape is,the difference in the quantity of a natural and an artificialcomposition : the finest pictures of Claude (and here again Imay refer to a picture at Attingham) seldom consist of morethan one-fifth…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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