Tag: Humphry Repton

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.

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.

Images of the conservatory Carlton House, city home of the Prince Regent who liked everything jazzed up in a most expensive way.

“”The Conservatory, Carlton House” showing how it may look filled with plants. The conservatory was never built. ca. 1808. British. Pen and ink with watercolor over pencil. Humphrey Repton, maker (1752-1818). Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/917090/the-conservatory-carlton-house
“A view of the interior of the conservatory at Carlton House.” Illustration which ran in the September 1, 1811 issue of Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Volume 6, Number 33, facing page 167. British. Rudolph Ackermann, publisher. In the public domain due to age. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carlton_House,_Conservatory,_from_Ackermann%27s_Repository_of_Arts,_1811.jpg
“The interior of the Prince of Wales’ conservatory at Carlton House.” 1811. British. Print. Inscription: Lettered below image with title and “Thomas Hopper, architect/ Engraved Exclusively for La Belle Assemblee, Published by John Bell, Southampton St. Strand, London, September 1, 1811.” Collections of Tyntesfield, North Somerset. Image Tyntesfield © National Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/22291.16
“The Exterior of the Prince of Wales’ conservatory at Carlton House,” view of a grand conservatory in the gardens of Carlton House surrounded by trees and shrubs. 1817. British. Inscription: Lettered below image with title and “Thomas Hopper, Architect / Engraved Exclusively for La Belle Assemblee, Published by John Bell, Southampton St. Strand, London, November 1. 1817”. Collections of the British Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/607638001

Garden designs to make your home be like endless summer. British. Humphry Repton, designer (1752-1818). These are sketches from the Red Books made for clients that he used as sales devices.

"Rosarium," from the Red Book created for the Earl of Bridgewater at Ashridge Park. 1813.
“Rosarium,” from the Red Book created for the Earl of Bridgewater at Ashridge Park. 1813. Image © 2019 · American Gardening. Fair use license. via http://americangardening.net/in-1813-english-landscape-gardener-humphry-repton-proposed-a-flower-garden-of-roses/

Repton and Nash article image
“General View from the Pavilion, ” from the volume that outlined designs for the Prince Regent’s Brighton Pavilion. 1808. Collection of the British Library. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/humphry-repton-and-john-nash

Drawing from the Red Book made for Sheringham Hall. 1812.
Drawing from the Red Book made for Sheringham Hall. 1812. In the public domain due to age. via https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-red-book-for-sheringham-hall-c1812-humphry-repton.html