Humphry Repton

Download or read book Humphry Repton written by Tom Williamson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Humphry Repton written by Humphry Repton and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1994 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Red Books of Humphry Repton written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Humphry Repton written by Stephen Daniels and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Capability Brown and Humphry Repton written by Edward Hyams and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening written by Humphry Repton and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Landscapes of Taste written by André Rogger and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.