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 298
cannoteasily be expressed by painting—the ideas of motion, anima-tion, and inhabitancy, contrasted with those of stillness andsolitude. Its form is meant to be humble, without meanness ;it is, and appears, the habitation of a labourer who has thecare of the neighbouring woods; its simplicity is the… … [Fig. 93. View from the house at Blaize Castle, enlivened by a cottage in the distance.] The propensity for imitation, especially where no greattrouble or expense is incurred, has made treillage ornamentsso common, that some observations concerning them may beexpected in this work, especially as I…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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