View of Longleat House, Wiltshire, and its park
Architect/Designer | Brown, Lancelot, 'Capability' (1716-1783) |
Country | UK: England |
City | Longleat |
Subject Date | 1810 |
Image Date | 1810 |
View | Topographical |
Medium | Print |
Library Reference | EW E.e.403 |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Parks ; Country houses |
SOURCE: Humphry Repton. Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening (London, 1816), facing p. 122 NOTES: The house was completed by 1580, while the park was laid out by Capability Brown in the 18th century. The aquatint plates in the book are almost certainly all engraved from drawings made by Humphry Repton or his son, John Adey Repton.
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