Decorative Arts: Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts: Chapter III: Water--it may be too naked or too much clothed--example from West Wycombe--digression concerning the approach--motion of water--example at Adlestrop--Art must deceive to imitate nature--cascade at Thoresby--the rivulet--water at Wentworth described--a river easier to imitate than a lake--a bubbling spring may be imitated--a ferry boat at Holkham--a rocky channel at Harewood

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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 / Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts
(1803)

Chapter III: Water--it may be too naked or too much clothed--example from West Wycombe--digression concerning the approach--motion of water--example at Adlestrop--Art must deceive to imitate nature--cascade at Thoresby--the rivulet--water at Wentworth described--a river easier to imitate than a lake--a bubbling spring may be imitated--a ferry boat at Holkham--a rocky channel at Harewood, pp. 30-34

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