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Title: Humphry Repton architectural and landscape designs
Date (inclusive): 1807-1813
Number: 850834
Creator/Collector:
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818
Physical Description:
3.0 linear feet
(3 boxes, 2 flat file folders)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: English landscape designer. An assembled collection of drawings, letters and a report document Humphry Repton's designs for
gardens and buildings.
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Language: Collection material is in
English
English author and landscape designer, Repton is sometimes called the sucessor to the landscape designer Lancelot "Capability"
Brown, though Repton was never as financially successful.
Initially untrained in architecture, landscape design, or gardening when he began his career, Repton used his drawing skills
to obtain clients. Unlike other landscape designers, Repton left the exectution of his designs to others. He produced books
for his clients that showed before and after views to help them visualize his designs. Usually in red bindings, these design
proposals became known as Repton's "Red Books" and perhaps were the foundation of the books he published,
Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1795)
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1803), and
Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1816). An example of a Red Book can be found in this collection.
Repton worked with his sons, the architect John Adey Repton and George Repton. The Reptons practiced together and separately
with the architect John Nash prior to 1800.
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Humphry Repton architectural and landscape designs, 1807-1813, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no.
850834.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa850834
Acquired in 1984 and 1985 in separate acquisitions and compiled by the Repository. Report concerning the gardens at Ashridge
is from the De Belder Library.
Processed by J. Gibbs
Scope and Content of Collection
An assembled collection of drawings, letters, and a report document Humphry Repton's designs for gardens and buildings. Garden
designs were proposed for Ashridge, Herts., owned by the Earl of Bridgewater, circa 1807-1813. (The designs were adapted and
implemented after Repton's death by Sir Jeffry Wyatville.) Three drawings present designs for the Earl of Spencer's Harleston
Park, Northamptonshire (undated). Four ink drawings are designs by Humphry and George Repton for a lodge for Chas. Hoare (Luscombe),
circa 1810. A sketchbook with the title "A few hints concerning landscape sketches" (circa 1810) was made by Repton and describes
how to use watercolor in landscape drawings.
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818
Architecture--Great Britain--19th century
Landscape design--Great Britain
Landscape drawing--Great Britain
Architectural drawings--England--19th century
Sketches--England--19th century
Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, Earl of, 1756-1829
Repton, George Stanley
Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860
Torbron, Steward