Proposed Cottage at Blaise Castle, Henbury, Bristol

Proposal for a cottage at 'Blaize Castle' [Blaise] from Humphry Repton's book 'Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening', published by J Taylor in 1803. Repton writes, 'Some object was wanting to enliven the scenery; a temple, or a pavilion, in this situation, would have reflected light, and formed a contrast with the dark woods; but such a building would not have appeared to be inhabited, this cottage therefore derives its chief beauty from that which cannot easily be expressed by painting; the ideas of motion, animation, and inhabitancy, contrasted with those of stillness and solitude. Its form is meant to be humble, without meanness; its simplicity is the effect of art, not of neglect or accident...'