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 175
is seenpart of the colonade that joins the east wing to the body of the.house: from the general character of this scenery, we cannot butsuppose this to be a fragment of some ruined Grecian temple,and no part of a modern inhabited palace. Hence it is evidentthat the mind cannot associate the ideas… … St-^.^.te.- a^ ^//^iii^^wW>»*< 117 Another mistake of the admirers of painters landscape is,the difference in the quantity of a natural and an artificial com-position: the finest pictures of Claude (and here again I mayrefer to a picture at Attingham) seldom consist of more thanone-fifth of…
