Humphry Repton

Author: Tom Williamson
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789142997
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
Humphry Repton (1752–1818) remains one of England’s most interesting and prolific garden and landscape designers. Renowned for his innovative design proposals and distinctive before-and-after images, captured in his famous “Red Books,” Repton’s astonishing career represents the link between the simple parklands of his predecessor Capability Brown and the more elaborate, structured, and formal landscapes of the Victorian age. This lavishly illustrated book, based on a wealth of new research, reinterprets Repton’s life, working methods, and designs, and examines why they proved so popular in a rapidly changing world.

Humphry Repton

Author: Humphry Repton
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022275
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
This publication reproduces all the text pages and illustrations from the two Red Books in the collection of the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks; that for Brandsbury, produced in 1789 as the first Red Book, and the one for Glemham Hall, produced in 1791.

The Red Books of Humphry Repton

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages :

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Humphry Repton

Author: Stephen Daniels
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN: 9780300079647
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
The leading landscape gardener of late Georgian England, Humphry Repton was innovative and prolific. This work frames his life in five domains - the road, the country, the picturesque landscape, the aristocratic estate and the urban periphery.

Capability Brown and Humphry Repton

Author: Edward Hyams
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Inspired by French and Italian landscape painting, a number of eighteenth-century artist-gardeners led by William Kent created an art-form unique in the West, althought favoured from times of antiquity in China and Japan: the picturesque garden - virtually a landscape picture made not of paint on canvas but of real country and buildings. Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of this art, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from 'natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both , in the course of their work, met many of the leading men of their day, and George III made a friend of Brown; both, in their different ways, exerted a lasting influence on other landscape designers, including those of America and Europe. -- Book jacket.

Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening

Author: Humphry Repton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781619810464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Landscapes of Taste

Author: André Rogger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415415033
Category : Jardins
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Humphry Repton¿s Red Books have long been the subject of scholarly interest for their unique contribution to British landscape discourse around 1800. Lavishly illustrated with Repton¿s own watercolours, the notorious Red Book manuscripts were used to suggest improvements to family estates all over England, Scotland and Wales. Through detailed analysis of Repton¿s working practices, Andr¿ogger argues that the landscape gardener¿s main artistic achievement is in the text-and-image concept of his Red Books, rather than in his grounds as finally executed. He presents the Red Books as artefacts in their own right, examining their creative potential as an entirely new genre of landscape appraisal. Assembling a comprehensive and descriptive catalogue of 123 original volumes, Landscapes of Taste: The Art of Humphry Repton¿s Red Books guides the reader through a fascinating part of the rich texture and legacy of Georgian landscape aesthetics.

Humphry Repton

Author: Tom Williamson
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789143004
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 310

The Art of Landscape Gardening

Author: Humphry Repton
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780343473860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
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Gardens and the Picturesque

Author: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262581318
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely".