Go on holiday with the Prince Regent. Hand-colored aquatint plates from Humphry Repton’s and J. C. Stadler’s folio “Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton.” Humbly inscribed to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, these are watermarked 1822.

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Gardens are Works of Art. Frontispiece. Watermarked 1822. One of a set of hand-colored aquatints from Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton. Humphry Repton, author, with help from his sons, John Adey Repton and G. S. Repton. Aquatint by J.C. Stadler after Repton. Image © 2023 Donald A. Heald Rare Books. Fair use license. Aquatint itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/40064/humphry-repton/designs-for-the-pavillon-sic-at-brighton-humbly-inscribed-to-his-royal-highness-the-prince-of-wales
Watermarked 1822. One of a set of hand-colored aquatints from Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton. Humphry Repton, author, with help from his sons, John Adey Repton and G. S. Repton. Aquatint by J.C. Stadler after Repton. Image © 2023 Donald A. Heald Rare Books. Fair use license. Aquatint itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/40064/humphry-repton/designs-for-the-pavillon-sic-at-brighton-humbly-inscribed-to-his-royal-highness-the-prince-of-wales
Watermarked 1822. One of a set of hand-colored aquatints from Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton. Humphry Repton, author, with help from his sons, John Adey Repton and G. S. Repton. Aquatint by J.C. Stadler after Repton. Image © 2023 Donald A. Heald Rare Books. Fair use license. Aquatint itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/40064/humphry-repton/designs-for-the-pavillon-sic-at-brighton-humbly-inscribed-to-his-royal-highness-the-prince-of-wales
Watermarked 1822. One of a set of hand-colored aquatints from Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton. Humphry Repton, author, with help from his sons, John Adey Repton and G. S. Repton. Aquatint by J.C. Stadler after Repton. Image © 2023 Donald A. Heald Rare Books. Fair use license. Aquatint itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/40064/humphry-repton/designs-for-the-pavillon-sic-at-brighton-humbly-inscribed-to-his-royal-highness-the-prince-of-wales
Watermarked 1822. One of a set of hand-colored aquatints from Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton. Humphry Repton, author, with help from his sons, John Adey Repton and G. S. Repton. Aquatint by J.C. Stadler after Repton. Image © 2023 Donald A. Heald Rare Books. Fair use license. Aquatint itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/40064/humphry-repton/designs-for-the-pavillon-sic-at-brighton-humbly-inscribed-to-his-royal-highness-the-prince-of-wales

Humphry Repton was what we would call a landscape architect though he called himself “an improver of landscapes” and that he certainly was. He obtained many commissions from the Prince Regent (George IV). Several other blog posts here have more wonderful aquatints after his designs.

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