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 431
e people who formed these awful wonders of antiquity,instead of erecting buildings on the surface of the ground,began their operations by cutting away the foundation of arock, to obtain room below, without endangering the super-structure ; and thus, by degrees, the Indian architecture seemsto have… … [Fig. 134. Imaginary sketch, exhibiting1 the principle of perpendicular pressure in the artifical vaults made inthe native rock in India, and also in the arches of buildings in the Indian style, and even in their domes .See the elongated dome in the background of the vignette.] DESIGNS FOR THE…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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