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 84
[Fig1. 6. Rivenhall Place, in its gloomy and sequestered state.] appearance of being low and damp. [See fig. 6.] The interference of art, in former days, has, indeed, rendered the6 improvement and restoration of its natural beauties a work of some labour; yet, by availing ourselves of those natural… … [Fig. 7. Another view of Rivenhall Place, shewing- its formal canal and bridge.] 6 turesque and cheerful, and the situation, which is not really6 damp, may be so managed as to lose that appearance. The first object is to remove the stables, and all the trees and 44 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING,…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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