The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton, Esq.: Being his Entire Works on These Subjects

By the beginning of the nineteenth century, landscape gardening had divided into at least two branches. The geometric style promoted strictly ordered gardens, while the natural style, for which the period is known, preserved characteristics of untamed vistas. Edited by a former professional rival, J...

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Weitere Verfasser: Loudon, John C. 1783-1843 (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1840
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection
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Zusammenfassung:By the beginning of the nineteenth century, landscape gardening had divided into at least two branches. The geometric style promoted strictly ordered gardens, while the natural style, for which the period is known, preserved characteristics of untamed vistas. Edited by a former professional rival, John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), this one-volume collection of the works of Humphry Repton (1752–1818) first appeared in 1840. Featuring more than 250 engravings, it illuminates the principal styles and contemporary debates of landscape design. Including perspective tricks to disguise differing water levels, and instructions on the use of cattle as a natural measure of scale, Repton's writings reflect the attention to detail that was involved in planning and executing major projects. The collection is prefaced with a biographical notice believed to have been written by the architect John Adey Repton (1775–1860), who collaborated with his father on many schemes
Beschreibung:Reprint of: A new edition, 1840. - "With an historical and scientific introduction, a systematic analysis, a biographical notice, notes, and a copious alphabetical index ... Originally published in one folio and three quarto volumes, and now comprised in one volume octavo"--Original title page
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxxi, 619 pages)
ISBN:9781107337343
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781107337343

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