Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park

The year 2012 marked 200 years since Humphry Repton (1752–1818) produced his design for Sheringham Park in north Norfolk, bound as one of his Red Books. On paper, Repton is England’s best-known and most influential landscape gardener. On the ground, his work is much harder to identify, focused as it...

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Main Authors: Daniels, Stephen, Veale, Lucy
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2014
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description The year 2012 marked 200 years since Humphry Repton (1752–1818) produced his design for Sheringham Park in north Norfolk, bound as one of his Red Books. On paper, Repton is England’s best-known and most influential landscape gardener. On the ground, his work is much harder to identify, focused as it was on light touches that equated more to landscape makeover than the landscape making of his predecessor Lancelot “Capability” Brown. This paper documents and evaluates a project that celebrated this bicentenary through a temporary exhibition within the visitor centre of Sheringham Park, whilst also making reference to the commemoration of his work in other places and on paper. In attempting to reveal Repton at Sheringham, we explore the context of the 1812 commission and the longer landscape history of the site, as well as the different methods of representing Repton on site that are open to site owners and managers.
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spelling nottingham-283242020-05-04T16:53:37Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28324/ Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park Daniels, Stephen Veale, Lucy The year 2012 marked 200 years since Humphry Repton (1752–1818) produced his design for Sheringham Park in north Norfolk, bound as one of his Red Books. On paper, Repton is England’s best-known and most influential landscape gardener. On the ground, his work is much harder to identify, focused as it was on light touches that equated more to landscape makeover than the landscape making of his predecessor Lancelot “Capability” Brown. This paper documents and evaluates a project that celebrated this bicentenary through a temporary exhibition within the visitor centre of Sheringham Park, whilst also making reference to the commemoration of his work in other places and on paper. In attempting to reveal Repton at Sheringham, we explore the context of the 1812 commission and the longer landscape history of the site, as well as the different methods of representing Repton on site that are open to site owners and managers. Taylor & Francis 2014-09-23 Article NonPeerReviewed Daniels, Stephen and Veale, Lucy (2014) Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park. Landscape Research, 40 (1). pp. 5-22. ISSN 0142-6397 Humphry Repton; Sheringham Park; Designed landscapes; Reveal; National Trust http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01426397.2014.945518 doi:10.1080/01426397.2014.945518 doi:10.1080/01426397.2014.945518
spellingShingle Humphry Repton; Sheringham Park; Designed landscapes; Reveal; National Trust
Daniels, Stephen
Veale, Lucy
Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park
title Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park
title_full Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park
title_fullStr Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park
title_full_unstemmed Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park
title_short Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park
title_sort revealing repton: bringing landscape to life at sheringham park
topic Humphry Repton; Sheringham Park; Designed landscapes; Reveal; National Trust
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