History of Early American Landscape Design:Image Collection

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John White, Indian Village of Secoton, 1585

Unknown, "Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt" [The Castello Plan], 1660

Anonymous, Hunting Scene with a Pond, 18th century

Michael van der Gucht, "Designs of Groves of a Middle Height," 1712

Anonymous, Plan de la Nouvelle Orleans, 1720

Batty Langley, "An Improvement of a beautiful Garden at Twickenham," 1728

Batty Langley, The Design of an Elegant Kitchen Garden Contain'g ARP 1.2.20. Including Walks, 1728

Batty Langley, "Design of a rural Garden, after the new manner," 1728

James Gibbs, “The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a Temple,” 1728

Thomas Johnston (engraver), William Bradford (publisher), "A Plan of the City of New York from an Actual Survey Made by James Lyne," 1731

The Gansevoort Limner (possibly Pieter Vanderlyn), Young Lady with a Fan, 1737

James Stoddert, A ground plat of the city and port of Annapolis (copy), 1718 [1743]

Batty and Thomas Langley, "Five new Order of Columns, Plain & Enriched," 1747

John Warner, A survey of the northern neck of Virginia, being the lands belonging to the Rt. Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron Cameron…as surveyed according to order in the years 1736 & 1737, c. 1747

Batty and Thomas Langley, "Gothick [sic] Temple," 1747

William Dering, attr., Portrait of George Booth, 1748-50

Lewis Evans, A Map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the Three Delaware Counties, 1749

Jane Colden, A page from her botanical manuscript describing no. 69, “Yellow Lilly with the flowers standing upright” (Lilium philadelphicum), c. 1750s

William and John Halfpenny, A Chinese Double brac'd Paling, 1755

William and John Halfpenny, "An Obelisk in the Chinese Taste," 1755

Nicholas Garrison, A View of Bethlehem, one of the Brethren's Principal Settlements, in Pennsylvania, North America, 1757

John or William Bartram, "A Draught of John Bartram's House and Garden as it appears from the River", 1758

Christian Gottlieb Reuter, Der UpLand Gartten, 1759

John Montrésor, New York and its Environs to Greenwich, 1766

John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, 1768

Charles Willson Peale, Parnassus, c. 1769

Claude Joseph Sauthier, A Plan of the Town of Newbern in Craven County, North Carolina, detail of Governor's Palace, 1769

Claude Joseph Sauthier, A Plan of the Town of Newbern in Craven County, North Carolina, 1769

John Hawks, "Plan and Elevation of a Prison for the District of Edenton," June 1, 1773

Anonymous, The South West Prospect of the Seat of Colonel George Boyd of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New England, 1774., 1774

Joseph F. W. Des Barres, A Plan of the Town of Newport in the Province of Rhode Island (1780)

Archibald Campbell, Sketch of the Northern Frontiers of Georgia, extending from the mouth of the River Savannah to the town of Augusta, 1780

Williamsburgh & the slip of land between York & James rivers from thence to Hampton

Charles Willson Peale, Mary White (Mrs. Robert) Morris (1749-1827), from life, c. 1782.

Thomas Lee Shippen, Plan of Westover, 1783

Claude Joseph Sauthier, John Hawk's plan of the Governor's House and grounds in New Bern, N.C., 1783

Plan for the greenhouse and slave quarters at Mount Vernon, Plan No. 1

Samuel Vaughan, Plan of Mount Vernon, 1787

James Earl, William Henry Capers, 1788

William Bartram, “Plan of the Ancient Chunky-Yard,” 1789

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"

Unknown, Bay, Elihu Hall, Plan Showing 1 Town Lot on Meeting Street in Charleston, August 1789 (plan)

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, View of the North Front of Belvidere, Richmond, 1790s

Samuel McIntire, Design for a Fence, c. 1791

Thomas Jefferson, Plan for the City of Washington, March 1791

Andrew Craigie, Proposed Outbuildings for the Craigie Estate, December 11, 1791

Andrew Ellicott (creator), Samuel Hill (engraver), Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, 1792

William Clarke, Mrs. Levin Winder (Mary Stoughton Sloss), 1793

Pierre Pharoux, Plan of Esperanza, N.Y., n.d.

Unknown, Derby Garden, [circa 1795–1799]

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