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• Statue
  of a whole living being” (view text). Other terms, such as “figure,” “sculpture,” “bust,” and “image,” were used with some frequency. Thomas Jefferson
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• Fountain
  discussion of Rush’s sculpture, see D. Dodge Thompson, “The Public Work of William Rush: A Case Study in the Origins of American Sculpture,” in William Rush
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• J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon
  imitations, or resemblances, according to the manner of that art. Thus, sculpture does not attempt colour, nor painting to raise surfaces in relief; and
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• Arch
  on boards cut the outlines of said figures as representing statues in sculpture.” back up to History Peale, Charles Willson, c. 1825, describing Philadelphia
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• Landscape gardening
  imitations, or resemblances, according to the manner of that art. Thus, sculpture does not attempt colour, not painting to raise surfaces in relief; and
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• Gate/Gateway
  suitable niches or platforms for statuary, urns, crests or other decorative sculpture and carving. In Boston in 1721 Judge Samuel Sewall decorated his gate leading
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• Vase/Urn
  can scarce have too many of them in a Garden: But, as in the Business of Sculpture, it should be excellent, as well as in Painting and Poesy [sic] (which
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• Gardenesque
  imitations, or resemblances, according to the manner of that art. Thus, sculpture does not attempt colour, nor painting to raise surfaces in relief; and
  30 KB (4,397 words) - 16:03, July 14, 2020
• Belfield
  on boards cut the outlines of said figures as representing statues in sculpture. And [so that] his design of those figures might be fully understood [by]
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• Benjamin Henry Latrobe
  floor of the house.” [Fig. 9] Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1806, describing a sculpture created for the Navy Yard, Washington, DC (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 158)
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• Charles Willson Peale
  boards cut to the outlines of said figures as representing statues in sculpture. . . “Having a good spring-house the water from it supplied a small fish-pond
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• Temple
  place of resort and instruction and held a harpsichord and a piece of sculpture. The term “temple” was often used interchangeably with “pavilion,” “pleasure”
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• Ancient style
  associated with the modern garden, such as temples, summerhouses, architecture, sculpture, and water features, also appeared in the ancient-style garden. The difference
  33 KB (4,411 words) - 11:25, March 15, 2021
• French style
  elevation, with niches and recesses for statues, vases and other ornaments of sculpture.” Loudon, Jane, 1845, Gardening for Ladies (1845: 210) “The French garden
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• Ephraim Chambers
  built of stone, or marble, and magnificently adorned with architecture, sculpture, inscriptions, &c. serving not only to adorn a triumph, at the return from
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• Washington Monument (Baltimore, MD)
  triumphal arch as the base for a 120-foot Doric column surmounted by a sculpture of Washington in a quadriga guided by a personification of Victory [Fig
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• Noah Webster
  rubbish, and kept as a curiosity. “3. In architecture, an ornament of sculpture, placed on socles or pedestals, representing the vessels of the ancients
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• Seat
  boards cut to the outlines of said figures as representing statues in sculpture.” Sheldon, John P., December 10, 1825, describing Fairmount Waterworks
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• Dutch style
  out with parallel axes, complex parterres, Italo-French fountains and sculpture, and geometrical topiary. In An Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1826), J. C
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• Rockwork/Rockery
  together of all sorts of stones, bricks, shells, fragments of statuary or sculpture, and even roots of trees; which latter object, though very suitable as
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