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 457
The eye sees the ground over the fence at a [in fig. 157] ;but, if carried to b, all view of the ground will be lost [to aperson standing on the floor-line, c]. [Fig. 158.] … If the ground be flat, as at c [in fig. 158], or rises fromthe house, as at D, the fence will admit of being placed muchfarther from the house, without obstructing the view of thelawn.* The necessity of a fence, to protect the house fromcattle, seems to have been doubted by the followers of…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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