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- Summerhouse (section Images)Esq., c. 1819. The summerhouse is visible in the left corner of the image. See image detail in Fig. 2. Anonymous, The Vale, 1820–30. James W. Steel, “Beech54 KB (7,141 words) - 13:18, April 12, 2021
- Andrew Jackson Downing (section Images)appearance of democracy” and “strengthen physical symbols of the national image” through the development of the city’s public spaces. Downing’s plan divided60 KB (7,882 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
- March 1797. “Mill Pond 3 Miles long” describes the pond at the top of the image. William Russell Birch, Plan of Springland, c. 1800, in Emily T. Cooperman60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
- being” (view text). Other terms, such as “figure,” “sculpture,” “bust,” and “image,” were used with some frequency. Thomas Jefferson (1771), for example, described60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
- descriptions and images of American gardens. For example, Lewis Miller’s mid-19th century poem about “bowery shade” is illustrated with an image of two girls29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
- adjacent land Charles County, MD, 1697. The trees in the lower part of the image are labeled “Thickett” on the right edge. Unknown, Derby Garden, [circa 1795–1799]31 KB (4,281 words) - 17:44, February 3, 2021
- Based on extensive excavations at Williamsburg, Virginia, the quintessential image of the colonial revival garden, the brick walk, does not appear to have been34 KB (4,480 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
- Ha-Ha/Sunk fence (section Images)landscape improvements extended into the first decade of the 19th, and an image of Park House in Albion, Illinois, shows a ha-ha dating to around 1820 [Fig27 KB (3,933 words) - 18:17, February 25, 2021
- the tree-lined alley under the word “Common,” at the left center of the image. Anonymous, Moore and Jones (engravers), District of Columbia and Vicinity20 KB (2,767 words) - 10:38, April 6, 2021
- obelisk represents a clear correlation between usage, treatise citation, and image based on early American primary sources. Peale noted his reliance on George54 KB (6,939 words) - 19:38, August 12, 2021
- of the farmer, and, as Timothy Dwight noted in 1796, such walls were “the image of tidy, skilful, profitable agriculture.” —Elizabeth Kryder-Reid Fitzhugh72 KB (10,638 words) - 16:02, April 1, 2021
- Street to the Place d’Armes, 1836. The fountain is in the center of the image. [See Fig. 13] John Henry Bufford. Fairmount from the first Landing, cover68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
- A Tour in America, 1798–1800, 2 vols. (1800), 2:699. Bordley cites this image as a “Section of an ice-pit, with its log-cell insulated with straw on all44 KB (6,456 words) - 13:35, April 12, 2021
- River Front from Canal Street to the Place d’Armes [detail], 1836. Louisiana Image Collection, Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University. George Washington57 KB (7,617 words) - 13:34, April 1, 2021
- Fig. 1 is a preparatory sketch for “The Lake at Montgomery Place," view image. A. J. Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening21 KB (2,936 words) - 13:56, March 16, 2021
- center-right of the image. Charles H. Wolf, attr., Pennsylvania Farmstead with Many Fences, c. 1847. The bed is located in the center of the image between the85 KB (12,270 words) - 16:58, April 5, 2021
- American Scenery (1840), vol. 2, pl. 26. Arch is in shadow in center bottom of image. Anonymous, The Flower-Garden, in Joseph Breck, The Flower-Garden: or, Breck’s26 KB (3,438 words) - 16:44, March 15, 2021
- Philadelphia", c. 1785. Canal is the stream of water in the center of the image. Thomas Birch, Fairmount Water Works, 1821. George Cooke (artist), W. J.32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
- Birch, Fairmount Water Works, 1821. The Pavilion is in the center of the image, atop the pier. Anonymous, Floor Plan and Façade of Garden Pavilion, Economy33 KB (4,449 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
- Belvedere/Prospect tower/Observatory (section Images)with angles of sight measured from its peak to the lowest ground level. The image of the tower at Monte Video [Fig. 6] illustrates that the height of the belvedere22 KB (2,844 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021