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 499
from the end by two windows, it willleave the opposite end of the room dark and dull; while awindow, or glazed aperture, at a [in fig. 182], opening into averandah, or green-house, will give cheerfulness, unattendedby the objections mentioned in a town-house, and, con-sequently, due advantage… … A room, longer than it is wide, will be best lighted by threesashes in the long side opposite to the fire-place, because thelight is more generally spread over the whole area, and alooking-glass over the chimney will increase the light, anddouble the landscape, in the country; but, in a…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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