Anthony St. John Baker
Anthony St. John Baker (1785-May 16, 1854), was the English diplomat who carried the Treaty of Ghent to the United States at the close of the War of 1812. During his years of official service in Europe and America, he recorded his impressions in written accounts as well as watercolor sketches, ultimately publishing the autobiographical Mémoires d’un voyageur qui se repose (Memoirs of a Traveler Now in Retirement) in 1850.
Terms
Arboretum, Arcade, Avenue, Bowling Green, Conservatory, Deer Park, Fall/Falling Garden, Fence, Ha-Ha/Sunk fence, Lawn, Nursery, Park, Plantation, Square, Statue, Sundial, Terrace/Slope Wall
Images
"View of the White House," 1826, from Mémoires d’un voyageur qui se repose (1850).
Mount Airy, Virginia; northeast front, 1827, from Mémoires d’un voyageur qui se repose (1850), in Therese O'Malley and Marc Treib, Regional Garden Design in the United States (1995), p. 152, fig. 21.
Mount Airy, Virginia; southwest front as viewed from the bowling green, 1827, from Mémoires d’un voyageur qui se repose (1850), in Therese O'Malley and Marc Treib, Regional Garden Design in the United States (1995), p. 152, fig. 22.
B. King (lithograper), "Riversdale, near Bladensburg," 1827.
