Revealing Repton

Bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park

Bibliographic Data

ID11167495
AuthorsStephen Daniel (0000-0002-4605-9732, University of Nottingham), STEPHEN Daniels (0000-0002-5987-9924), Lucy Veale (0000-0002-0415-7078, University of Nottingham, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume40
Issue1
Pages5-22
Publication date2015-01-02
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLandscape Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0142-6397 • E-ISSN: 1469-9710
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01426397.2014.945518
OpenAlexW1977126579
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

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 managers

Archaeology · Commission · Context (archaeology) · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Exhibition · Geography · Landscape archaeology · Landscape design · Landscape history · Political science · Visitor pattern · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · Landscape and Cultural Studies · Law

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