Items brought in to be valued include a ceremonial wooden spoon presented to the student who got the worst exam results in the history of Cambridge University, one of the last flasks of naval rum to be produced, and a book of designs by famous landscape gardener
Humphry Repton.
Its landscape was created by Capability Brown and
Humphry Repton, two garden design giants.
The views of and from landed estates are matters for heated debate in this novel, with
Humphry Repton, Austen's contemporary and the most celebrated landscape designer of his day, invoked several times by name when the oafish Rushworth seeks to "improve" his estate.
The lodge sits on the edge of Stoneleigh Abbey Park which was designed by
Humphry Repton and embraces the Grade I listed Abbey buildings.
It's just 200 years since
Humphry Repton presented plans in 1809 to move the Avon closer to the house to create a lake effect.
For what was
Humphry Repton famous in the 18th century?
5), they wrote, reflecting the imprint upon their minds of English landscapes fashioned a previous generation or four by Capability Brown and
Humphry Repton.
Ym 1799, mae
Humphry Repton y cynllunydd gerddi enwog yn awgrymu gosod cofeb ger y gromlech i nodi'r cysylltiad Derwyddol, felly yn sicr mae Repton yn gyfarwydd damcaniaethau Rowlands fod y capfeini yn gerrig yr allor, ond wedyn erbyn 1800 mae William Bingley yn amau os yw damcaniaeth Rowlands yn gywir.
Sir
Humphry Repton, one of the most famous "improvers," who designed the landscape at Stoneleigh Abbey, Jane Austen's mother's ancestral estate, and who is mentioned in Mansfield Park, iterated bis principles in his 1803 Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening.
They also fulfilled Walpole's stated preference for an "old fashioned' formal garden near to the house for reasons of convenience, a methodology later adopted by the 'father of modern gardening'
Humphry Repton (1752-1818).
The park and gardens are no less a palimpsest than the house, and Adshead describes the successive contributions of George London and Henry Wise (probably), Charles Bridgeman, 'Capability' Brown and
Humphry Repton.
A rare Georgian bee-house, designed perhaps by John Nash or
Humphry Repton, supplied the sweetener.
