Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park

Stephen Daniels and Lucy Veale

Landscape Research, 2015, vol. 40, issue 1, 5-22

Abstract: The year 2012 marked 200years 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.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2014.945518

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