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View from the tower at Wembly

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Date

1794

Artist

Humphry Repton (1752-1818)

Collective Title

Sketches and hints on landscape gardening' by Humphry Repton, 1794.

Collection

Private Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Plate XIV. "View from the tower at Wembly: this is rather a prospect than a landscape; and therefore the pencil gives an inadequate idea of its real beauty. But this scene is attempted, to show how breadth of light and shade is produced, and that flutter corrected which had been the consequence of too many trees dotted on the lawn. In the unimproved state of this view, there is an evident confusion; and the chief circumstance attracting notice, is the smoke of a distant lime-kiln. – But, by introducing objects within the park, the view becomes more appropriate and concentred; and the distance is rendered more subordinate in the general composition." [Hinged flaps shown lowered and raised]

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Courtesy of a private collector

Location

Wembley Park, London, England

Country

Tags

Parks
Stately Homes
Gardens

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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