Scene at Attingham, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

A 'Scene at Attingham' from Humphry Repton's book, 'Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening', published in 1803. Repton writes, 'Among the trees is seen part of the colonnade that joins the east wing to the body of the house: from the general character of this scenery, we cannot but suppose this to be a fragment of some ruined Grecian temple, and no part of a modern inhabited palace. Hence it is evident that the mind cannot associate the ideas of elegance with neglect, or perfect repair and neatness with ruin and decay: such objects, therefore, however picturesque in themselves, are incongruous and misplaced, if near such a palace as Attingham.'