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Michael van der Gucht, "Designs of Groves of a Middle Height," 1712 + (''The Theory and Practice of Gardening: Wherein is fully handled All that relates to Fine Gardens, commonly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens, &c.'')
Batty Langley, The Design of an Elegant Kitchen Garden Contain'g ARP 1.2.20. Including Walks, 1728 + ('New Principles of Gardening, or The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c.)
John Smith Rubens (artist), J.B. Neagle (engraver), Washington, 1834 + (A System of Universal Geography: Or A Description of All the Parts of the World, On a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe; Accompanied With Analytical, Synoptical, And Elementary Tables)
Anonymous, "Plan of a Mansion Residence, laid out in the natural style," 1849 + (A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of L … A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc.: with remarks on rural architecture, etc.: with remarks on rural architecture)
Anonymous, "Plan of the foregoing grounds as a Country Seat, after ten years’ improvement," in A. J. Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening," (1849), 114, fig. 24. + (A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of L … A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America: With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture' Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture')
Alexander Jackson Davis, “View in the Grounds at Blithewood," 1849 + (A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of L … A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America: With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture)
Anonymous, “Mr. Dunn's Cottage, Mount Holly, N. J.,” in A. J. Downing, 1849 + (A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of L … A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America: With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture)
Anonymous, "Villa of Theodore Lyman, Esq., near Boston," 1849 + (A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of L … A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America: With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture)
Anonymous, "Residence of Gov. Morehead, North Carolina," 1849 + (A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of L … A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America: With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture)
Anonymous, "Tazza Fountain," 1849 + (A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of L … A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America: With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture)
Anonymous, "A Gothic vase," 1849 + (A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of L … A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America: With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture)
A. J. Downing, "Design for a rustic prospect tower," 1849 + (A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of L … A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America: With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture, Etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 + (A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to improvement of country residences... ; with remarks on rural architecture)
Alexander Jackson Davis, View of water with islands (Hyde Park), n.d. + (Alexander Jackson Davis Sketchbook)
Anonymous, “View of Mount Auburn,” 1836 + (American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge)
Anonymous, "Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane," in American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge 1, no. 1 (September 1834) + (American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge)
J. C. Loudon, The botanic flower-garden with a gravel-walk, 1826 + (An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising t … An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. By J.C. Loudon ... Illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood by Branstonany hundred engravings on wood by Branston)
J. C. Loudon, The imitation of a lake, 1826 + (An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising t … An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. By J.C. Loudon ... Illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood by Branstonany hundred engravings on wood by Branston)
J. C. Loudon, Thicket [detail], 1826 + (An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising t … An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. By J.C. London ... Illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood by Branstonany hundred engravings on wood by Branston)
Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Plan of the Camp, Methodist camp meeting at Georgetown, Virginia, August 6, 1809 + (Benjamin Henry Latrobe Manuscripts Collection)
Jane Colden, A page from her botanical manuscript describing no. 69, “Yellow Lilly with the flowers standing upright” (Lilium philadelphicum), c. 1750s + (Botanic Manuscript of Jane Colden 1724–1766)
C. Foster, "Western Baptist Theological Institute, at Covington KY, opposite Cincinnati, Ohio," 1841 + (Cincinnati in 1841: Its Early Annals and Future Prospects)
James Trenchard after Charles Willson Peale, "An East View of GRAY'S FERRY, near Philadelphia, with the TRIUMPHAL ARCHES, &c. erected for the Reception of General Washington, April 20th. 1789" + (Columbian Magazine: or Monthly Miscellany Containing a View of the History, Manners, Literature, Characters of the Year 1789)
Insurance policy drawings for Mount Vernon, March 13, 1803 + (Declaration for Assurance Book)

Benson John Lossing, “Residence of Washington Irving, Esq.,” 1839 + (Family Magazine or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge)

Anonymous, "Franklin College, in Athens, Georgia," 1854 + (Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion)
Batty and Thomas Langley, "Five new Order of Columns, Plain & Enriched," 1747 + (Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions. In many Grand Designs of Columns, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, Arcades, Colonades, Porticos, Umbrellos, Temples and Pavillions &c.)
James Smillie (artist), Robert Hinshelwood (engraver), "Bay-Side Avenue, Fern Hill," 1847 + (Green-wood Illustrated, in highly finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot / by James Smillie; with descriptive notices by Nehemiah Cleaveland)
James Smillie (artist), Robert Hinshelwood (engraver), "Lawn-Girt Hill," in Nehemiah Cleaveland, Green-wood Illustrated, in highly finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot / by James Smillie ; with descriptive notices by Nehemiah Cleaveland (1847), opp. p. 61. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. + (Green-wood Illustrated, in highly finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot / by James Smillie ; with descriptive notices by Nehemiah Cleaveland)
John Notman, "Ground Plan of Laurel Hill Cemetery," 1844 + (Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia)
John Warner Barber, "College of New Jersey, Princeton," 1844 + (Historical collections of the state of New … Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc. relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the stateescriptions of every township in the state)
W. R. Miller (artist) and Richardson & Cox (engraver), Irving’s Residence, General View, 1835 + (Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various Writers)
Mary Antrim, Brick House with Two Foreyards and Animals, 1807 + (Important American Schoolgirl Embroideries: The Landmark Collection of Betty Ring)
South Water Street, 1807 + (Journal of Lewis Miller)
Lewis Miller, Botanic garden at Princeton College, 1847 + (Lewis Miller, Sketches and Chronicles: The Reflections of a Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania German Folk Artist)
James Smillie (artist), J. A. Rolph (engraver), “View of the Central Square, Mount Auburn Cemetery,” (1847; repr., 1850) + (Mount Auburn Illustrated. In highly finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot, by James Smillie. With descriptive notices by Cornelia W. Walter)
Insurance policy drawings for Mount Vernon, June 5, 1805 + (Mutual Assurance Society, Richmond, Declaration for Assurance Book)
Alexander Walsh, "Plan of a Garden," 1841 + (New England Farmer)
Batty Langley, "An Improvement of a beautiful Garden at Twickenham," 1728 + (New Principles of Gardening, or The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c.)
William and John Halfpenny, "An Obelisk in the Chinese Taste," 1755 + (Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste: Being Designs Entirely New for the Decoration of Gardens, Parks, Forrests, Insides of Houses, &c.)
Joseph F. W. Des Barres, A Plan of the Town of Newport in the Province of Rhode Island (1780) + (The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain)
William Russell Birch, "View from the Elysian Bower, Springland, Pennsylva, the residence of M.r W. Birch," 1808 + (The Country Seats of the United States of North America: With Some Scenes Connected with Them)
William Russell Birch, “View from Belmont Pennsyl.a the Seat of Judge Peters,” 1808 + (The Country Seats of the United States of North America: with some Scenes connected with them)
John J. Thomas, "Plan of a Garden," 1842 + (The Cultivator)
Anonymous, "Rustic Arbours," 1850 + (The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape, Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, &c.)
A Religious Encampment in the Wilderness, December 30, 1865 + (The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebelli … The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion; also, Before and Since: Being an Encyclopedia and Panorama of the Western States, Pacific States and Territories of the Union, Historical, Geographical, and Pictorial, Illustrated by more than two hundred Engravings, presenting views of all the Cities and Principal Towns Public Buildings and Monuments Battle-fields — Historic localities natural curiosities, and scenes, Illustrating the times of the Rebellion, etc., Principally from Drawings taken on the spot by the Authors, John Barber, and Henry Howey the Authors, John Barber, and Henry Howe)
E.W. Clay, etched by J.W. Steel and W.H. Hay, "Sedgeley Park," 1830 + (Views in Philadelphia and its environs, from original drawings taken in 1827-30)
William Russell Birch, Plan of Springland, c. 1800 + (William Birch: Picturing the American Scene)