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INVENTORY OF THE HUMPHRY REPTON ARCHITECTURAL AND
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Title: Humphry Repton
architectural and landscape designs
Dates: 1807-1813
Collection number: 850834
Creator:
Repton,
Humphry, 1752-1818
Extent:
3 linear feet
(3
boxes, 2 flat file folders)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Libary
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
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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Humphry Repton architectural and landscape designs, 1807-1813,
Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 850834
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
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.
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