Red Book for Heathfield Park

Item author: Humphrey Repton
Item date: 1794
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 12,075
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

Repton invented a system of showing his clients before and after effects on their parkland landscapes by means of watercolour pictures with added paper flaps or fliers which could be turned back to reveal the improvements. There is little else extant from Heathfield, so the survival of the Red Book is of some importance

Item Provenance
Sothebys July 1993, Lot 451
Before
Before..
and after
..and after. Images courtesy of East Sussex Record Office.