Sketches and hints on landscape gardening : collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground / by H. Repton, Esq.

Main entry:

Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. ... and sold by J. and J. Boydell, ... and by G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, ... , [1794?]

Description:

xvi, 83, [3] p., XVI leaves of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 x 39 cm.

Notes:
Plates are colored aquatints after drawings by the author; fourteen have flaps or inserted parts which reveal changed views.
Dedication dated: Dec. 6, 1794.
Henrey, B. British botanical lit., 1269.
Digital facsimile available via Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, University of Wisconsin.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Une arcadie anglaise 1600-1990 = An English Arcadia 1600-1990", Centre canadien d'architecture, Feb. 12-Apr. 19, 1992.

Resources:
Online version

Subject:

Landscape architecture Early works to 1800.
Landscape architecture England.
Landscape gardening Early works to 1800.
Architecture du paysage Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture du paysage Angleterre.
Jardins Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape gardening.
England.

Form/genre:

Aquatints.
Early works.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 29546
Call No.: 6522
Status: External loan

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