Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts (1805)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860 · London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for J. Taylor ... · leaf 170
rt of the old ones, but particularly anoak, which not only hides the forked stem of a tree behind, butfrom its situation depresses the other trees, and lessens the mag-nitude and importance both of the hill and of the grove, bywhich its brow is covered, The situation of Attingham is at variance… … 113 yet, possessing no variety in the size of the trees, and but littlein the shape of ground, the eye is deceived in its real distance. By the laws of perspective, the nearer any object is to theeye, the larger it will appear; also the larger any object is, thenearer it will appear to the eye:…
