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 468
attempts have re-cently been made to produce modern Gothic castles, yet, thegreat principle on which the picturesque effect of all Gothicedifices must depend, has too generally been overlooked, viz.irregularity of outline; first, at the top by towers and pin-nacles, or chimneys; secondly, in the… … [Fig1. 165. A design to exemplify irregularity of outline in cnstle-gothic] outline of the base, by the building being placed on groundof different levels. To all these must be added, detachedbuildings, wThich tend to spread the locality, and extend theimportance of the principal pile, in which…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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