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Repton, Humphry
Repton, Humphry (1752–1818). The leading landscape gardener after Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and a contemporary of Sir Uvedale Price (1747–1829) and Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824). Knight attacked Brown's smooth and artificial style in his poem The Landscape (1794), to which Price added An Essay on the Picturesque defining the Picturesque as an aesthetic category as distinct from Burke's Sublime and Beautiful. Generally Repton followed Brown, but introduced formal parterres, terraces, and steps near the house, and used arbours, conservatories, lodges, and cottages. Although Repton undertook a few architectural commissions on his own, and some in a brief partnership with Nash, most were largely left to his sons John Adey (1775–1860) and George Stanley (1786–1858). Repton's celebrated technique of explaining his designs involved using ‘Red Books’ with sliding panels indicating the effects ‘before’ and ‘after’ improvement. Examples of Repton's work executed between 1800 and 1810 are Cassiobury (Herts.), Harewood (Yorks.), West Wycombe (Bucks.), and Woburn abbey (Beds.). Repton's Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening of 1795 lists 57 Red Books already prepared by that date, and this and his other publications were brought together by John Claudius Loudoun (1783–1843) in The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton, Esq (1840).
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JOHN CANNON. "Repton, Humphry." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Repton, Humphry." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-ReptonHumphry.html JOHN CANNON. "Repton, Humphry." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-ReptonHumphry.html |
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Repton, Humphry
Repton, Humphry (1752–1818). The leading landscape gardener after Lancelot ‘ Capability’ Brown and a contemporary of Sir Uvedale Price (1747–1829) and Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824). Generally Repton followed Brown, but introduced formal parterres, terraces, and steps near the house, and used arbours, conservatories, lodges, and cottages. Repton's celebrated technique of explaining his designs involved using ‘Red Books’ with sliding panels indicating the effects ‘before’ and ‘after’ improvement.
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JOHN CANNON. "Repton, Humphry." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Repton, Humphry." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-ReptonHumphry.html JOHN CANNON. "Repton, Humphry." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-ReptonHumphry.html |
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Repton, Humphry
Repton, Humphry, see picturesque.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Repton, Humphry." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Repton, Humphry." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-ReptonHumphry.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Repton, Humphry." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-ReptonHumphry.html |
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