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• Park
  proposed that it contain, among other attractions, carriage rides, monumental sculpture, water works, and walks set within green fields. Although Downing did not
  87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
• Cemetery/Burying ground/Burial ground
  for the friends of the deceased, or striking exhibitions of monumental sculpture, though all these have their influence. All these might be realized in
  71 KB (10,152 words) - 10:36, April 6, 2021
• Jane Loudon
  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
  51 KB (7,945 words) - 14:57, September 21, 2021
• Hedge
  altogether unrivalled; and it was also one of the favorite plants for verdant sculpture, in the ancient style of gardening. . . “The Yew, like the Holly, makes
  88 KB (12,511 words) - 20:49, March 29, 2021
• The Hills
  North America (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1841), 24, view on Zotero. For sculpture at Bush Hill, see Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, March 20, 1791
  24 KB (2,854 words) - 18:21, August 17, 2021
• Robert Mills
  States, which form'd the Federal union, as principal, having their arms sculptured on their face—A star, on a plain tablet in connection with the former
  31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
• Blithewood
  known as “Cruger’s folly,” which incorporated real fragments of Mayan sculpture. Downing’s use of Blithewood as an exemplar of good taste in landscape
  75 KB (10,290 words) - 18:14, August 24, 2021
• Solomon Willard
  a polymath who devoted himself to a wide range of pursuits: carpentry, sculpture, architecture, geology, chemistry, and agriculture, among them. Although
  8 KB (910 words) - 22:55, August 11, 2021
• Rustic style
  arbors, fences, flower baskets and the like, are rather out of place. The sculptured vase of marble, or terra cotta, would appear to be the most in keeping
  37 KB (5,144 words) - 14:29, February 17, 2021
• Washington Monument (Washington, DC)
  by a colonnaded Greek temple replete with statuary, ornamental relief sculptures, and murals representing historical events. Construction began in 1848
  16 KB (2,011 words) - 19:52, August 30, 2021
• Sundial
  because we think so highly artificial and architectural an object as a sculptured vase, is never correctly introduced unless it appear in some way connected
  18 KB (2,362 words) - 14:47, August 6, 2020
• Pot
  ornament; they are generally glazed green, but, for superior occasions, are sculptured and painted, or incrusted, &c. “1408. The propagation-pot. . . has a slit
  31 KB (4,315 words) - 17:29, March 16, 2021
• Belmont (Philadelphia, PA)
  taste for the arts, Peters displayed a collection of paintings and bronze sculptures in the central hall. Peters's home at Belmont was smaller than other country
  26 KB (3,226 words) - 13:56, August 11, 2021
• Arbor
  arbors, fences, flower baskets and the like, are rather out of place. The sculptured vase of marble, or terra cotta, would appear to be the most in keeping
  52 KB (6,854 words) - 17:24, August 19, 2021
• Flower garden
  colors and deep foliage of the former, heightened by contrast with the sculptured forms of the latter. . . “through these ornaments, [the flower garden]
  123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
• Obelisk
  States, which form’d the Federal union, as principal, having their arms sculptured on their face—A star, on a plain tablet in connection with the former
  54 KB (6,939 words) - 19:38, August 12, 2021
• The Evidence of American Garden History
  the president and his family on the portico looking like neoclassical sculpture. It seems the offending beds of geometrical shapes remained popular in
  43 KB (5,676 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021
• Springside
  for the friends of the deceased, or striking exhibitions of monumental sculpture, though all these have their influence... The true secret of the attraction
  26 KB (3,170 words) - 16:03, August 19, 2021
• Pierre Pharoux
  Franklin has set into a recess, like a saint, with the result that the sculpture’s beauty cannot be enjoyed." Pierre Pharoux describing Baron Von Steuben’s
  37 KB (4,574 words) - 17:22, September 28, 2021
• Montgomery Place
  and shaken its rich and variegated honours to the ground; and even the sculptured gardener seemed to hang his head in sorrow, and mutter between his marble
  68 KB (8,891 words) - 18:36, August 24, 2021

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