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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, “Beech
  54 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 divided
  60 KB (7,882 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
• Pond (section Images)
  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. Cooperman
  60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
• Statue (section Images)
  being” (view text). Other terms, such as “figure,” “sculpture,” “bust,” and “image,” were used with some frequency. Thomas Jefferson (1771), for example, described
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Bower (section Images)
  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 girls
  29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
• Thicket (section Images)
  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
• Alley (section Images)
  Based on extensive excavations at Williamsburg, Virginia, the quintessential image of the colonial revival garden, the brick walk, does not appear to have been
  34 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 [Fig
  27 KB (3,933 words) - 18:17, February 25, 2021
• Mall (section Images)
  the tree-lined alley under the word “Common,” at the left center of the image. Anonymous, Moore and Jones (engravers), District of Columbia and Vicinity
  20 KB (2,767 words) - 10:38, April 6, 2021
• Obelisk (section Images)
  obelisk represents a clear correlation between usage, treatise citation, and image based on early American primary sources. Peale noted his reliance on George
  54 KB (6,939 words) - 19:38, August 12, 2021
• Wall (section Images)
  of the farmer, and, as Timothy Dwight noted in 1796, such walls were “the image of tidy, skilful, profitable agriculture.” —Elizabeth Kryder-Reid Fitzhugh
  72 KB (10,638 words) - 16:02, April 1, 2021
• Fountain (section Images)
  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, cover
  68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
• Icehouse (section Images)
  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 all
  44 KB (6,456 words) - 13:35, April 12, 2021
• Piazza (section Images)
  River Front from Canal Street to the Place d’Armes [detail], 1836. Louisiana Image Collection, Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University. George Washington
  57 KB (7,617 words) - 13:34, April 1, 2021
• Lake (section Images)
  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 Gardening
  21 KB (2,936 words) - 13:56, March 16, 2021
• Bed (section Images)
  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 the
  85 KB (12,270 words) - 16:58, April 5, 2021
• Arch (section Images)
  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’s
  26 KB (3,438 words) - 16:44, March 15, 2021
• Canal (section Images)
  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
• Pavilion (section Images)
  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, Economy
  33 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 belvedere
  22 KB (2,844 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021

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