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A definitive survey of the glorious British
landscapes designed by Humphry Repton, whose
influence is felt everywhere from the rolling
meadows and kitchen gardens of English estates
to New York City’s Central Park.
Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape
designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton
created work that survives as a bridge between the
picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the
pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted.
By turns inspired by and in oppositi

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A definitive survey of the glorious British
landscapes designed by Humphry Repton, whose
influence is felt everywhere from the rolling
meadows and kitchen gardens of English estates
to New York City’s Central Park.
Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape
designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton
created work that survives as a bridge between the
picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the
pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted.
By turns inspired by and in oppositi

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