The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of ... Humphry Repton

Humphry Repton

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE of the late HUMPHRY REPTON Esq page	1

Ground	22

Advertisement explaining the Nature of this Work	25

PAGE	28

The Characters and Situations of several different Places	39

Concerning Buildingssome Observations on Gothic	55

Concerning the Situation for a HouseVarious Con	61

Concerning Watersome different Places referred	70

Ancient MansionsDanger of modernizingThree	285

Port Eliot p 291 Ashton Court p	296

Application of Gardening and Architecture united	300

Conclusion Concerning Colour New Theory	312

HISTORICAL NOTICES PAGE	324

to a house p 213 Difference between park and garden scenery p	329

the favourite season for landscape painters p 221 Winter p 401 Spring	332

Conclusion	340

Concerning Park Sceneryhow it differs from Forest	82

Concerning ApproachesAnswer to Mr Knights Mis	90

APPENDIX Answer to Mr Prices BookCorrespondence on	104

ADVERTISEMENT explaining the nature of this Work	119

scape gardener first adopted by Mr Repton p 29 Requisites for	127

List of the Places referred to as Examples	130

of removing earth p 136 Ground apparently altered by the situation	142

Optics or VisionAt what Distance Objects appear	145

Waterit may be too naked or too much clothed	156

Of PLANTING for immediate and for future Effect	169

WoodsWhateleys Remarks exemplified at SHARDELOES	182

groups c p 182 334 Planting single trees p 466 Woods and plan	194

Of FencesThe BoundaryThe SeparationExample	198

Walks drives and stations p 579 Approaches and evergreen drives	206

Ferme ornée a ContradictionFarm and Park distinct	207

Of PleasureGroundsFlowerGardens Example	213

Terrace at Corsham p 235 at Burley p 237 Statues p 343 Fountains	217

Morning p 154 454 Evening p 155 Effect of moonlight p	218

Defence of the ArtDifference between Landscape	220

good taste p 123 Sources of pleasure in landscape gardening and sum	222

The Park	225

Of ancient and modern GardeningAuthorsChange	231

levels p 70 Reflections from the surface of water p 152 Clothing	238

MiscellaneousEndless Variety of Situation and Cha	242

Cottage p	245

buildings p 339	255

Architecture and Gardening inseparableSome Inquiry	266

Seasons of the Year	284

Water	347

Difference between Painting and Gardening	355

PAGE	361

Hall p 418 Fifteen kinds of gardens at Ashridge p 515 530 Flower	366

Of the Situation Character and Circumstances	375

The Garden Entrances	381

buildings p 259 Architecture and gardening inseparable p 266 Cha	386

Of Grecian Construction	387

Interior	393

Dates of buildings p 421 Castles p 426 Gothic outline	400

FRAGMENT PAGE	411

Cobham Hall	418

Dwellinghouses Mansions	423

Castles	426

mansions danger of modernising p 286 Corsham House Port Eliot	430

FRAGMENT PAGE	468

Russellsquare p 342 Cadogansquare p 342 Cemetery p	491

The Kitchengarden	512

Gardens of Ashridge	525

Windows p 438 440 Ruins at Attingham p 227 Bridge p 227	526

Woburn Abbey	536

Kitchengarden p 331 at Woburn p 553 Kitchengarden	557

Water Fences	565

FRAGMENT PAGE	570

arable and a pasture farm p 208 Difficulty of uniting a park and a farm	579

Endsleigh	586

and Gothic parapets p 415 Pleasureground terrace at Endsleigh p	595

House of Industry	598

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Pàgina 520 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.‎

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Pàgina 332 - Winter, still lingering on the verge of Spring, Retires reluctant, and from time to time Looks back, while at his keen and chilling breath, Fair Flora sickens.‎

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Títol	The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of ... Humphry Repton
Autor	Humphry Repton
Editor	John Claudius Loudon
Editor	Longman, 1840
Original de	Universitat d’Oxford
Digitalitzat el	4 Oct. 2006
Nre. de pàgines	619 pàgines

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