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 503
e stamp the character of importance onthe place, in whatever style the house might have been built;for where we see a large pile of building on the summit of thehill, we are naturally led to compare its relative importance 462 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. with the scenery to which it… … [Fig. 186. Wingerworth House, before the grounds were altered.] almost a cube; and every building which partakes of this form,however great its proportions, always appears less than it reallyis, because the eye is not attracted either by its length, depth,
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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