- View of Water & Large Oaks Welbeck (with overslip)
- Creator:
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- Humphry Repton (1752-1818)
- Description:
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- Hand-colored aquatint From 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from Designs and Observations Now in the Possession of the Different Noblemen and Gentlemen, for whose use they were originally Made, the whole Tending to Establish Fixed Principles in the Art of Laying London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1794
- Curatorial Notes:
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- This work led to a more developed publication in 1804, Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, where Repton stated: “The perfection of landscape gardening [has four] requisites. First, it must display the natural beauties and hide the defects of every situation. Secondly, it should give the appearance of extent and freedom by carefully disguising or hiding the boundary. Thirdly, it must studiously conceal every interference of art, however expensive, by which the natural scenery is improved; making the whole appear the production of nature only; and fourthly, all objects of mere convenience or comfort, if incapable of being made ornamental, or of becoming proper parts of the general scenery, must be removed or concealed.”
- Photography:
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- David Kelly Crow
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/bc386q596
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical