A Project of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
History of Early American Landscape Design

Difference between revisions of "Greenhouse"

[http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/casva/research-projects.html A Project of the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ]
Line 19: Line 19:
 
<span id="roundabout_img"></span>
 
<span id="roundabout_img"></span>
 
<gallery widths="170px" heights="170px" perrow="7">
 
<gallery widths="170px" heights="170px" perrow="7">
 +
 +
Image:0475.jpg|n.d.
  
 
Image:0069.jpg|[[Samuel Vaughan]], Plan of the buildings and grounds of Mount Vernon, 1787.
 
Image:0069.jpg|[[Samuel Vaughan]], Plan of the buildings and grounds of Mount Vernon, 1787.
 +
 +
Image:0340.jpg|1803
 +
 +
Image:0861.jpg|February 19, 1805
  
 
Image:0009.jpg|[[Charles Willson Peale]], Letter to Angelica Peale describing his garden at Belfield, November 22, 1815.
 
Image:0009.jpg|[[Charles Willson Peale]], Letter to Angelica Peale describing his garden at Belfield, November 22, 1815.
  
 
Image:0064.jpg|Anonymous, "Map of Mr. Andrew Parmentier's Horticultural and Botanic Garden, at Brooklyn, Long Island, Two Miles From the City of New York," c. 1828.
 
Image:0064.jpg|Anonymous, "Map of Mr. Andrew Parmentier's Horticultural and Botanic Garden, at Brooklyn, Long Island, Two Miles From the City of New York," c. 1828.
 +
 +
Image:0878.jpg|1841
 +
 +
Image:0935.jpg|March 31, 1841
 +
 +
Image:0823.jpg|1843
 +
 +
Image:0943.jpg|1848
 +
 +
Image:0950.jpg|December 1849
 +
 +
Image:0790.jpg|1851
 +
 +
Image:0794.jpg|1851
 +
 +
Image:0795.jpg|1851
  
 
Image:0333.jpg|G. & F. Bill (firm), Birds eye view of Mt. Vernon the home of Washington, c. 1859.
 
Image:0333.jpg|G. & F. Bill (firm), Birds eye view of Mt. Vernon the home of Washington, c. 1859.
Line 35: Line 57:
  
 
Image:0187.jpg|Anonymous, Mount Clare, n.d
 
Image:0187.jpg|Anonymous, Mount Clare, n.d
 +
 +
Image:0342.jpg|c. 1787-92
 +
 +
Image:0826.jpg|c. 1792
  
 
Image:1983.jpg|[[Jeremiah Paul]], “Robert Morris’ Seat on Schuylkill,” July 20, 1794.
 
Image:1983.jpg|[[Jeremiah Paul]], “Robert Morris’ Seat on Schuylkill,” July 20, 1794.
Line 45: Line 71:
  
 
Image:0044.jpg|[[Charles Willson Peale]], View of the garden at Belfield, 1816.
 
Image:0044.jpg|[[Charles Willson Peale]], View of the garden at Belfield, 1816.
 +
 +
Image:0716.jpg|1820-25
  
 
Image:0049.jpg|[[William Satchwell Leney]], ''View of the Botanic Garden of the State of New York'', 1828.  
 
Image:0049.jpg|[[William Satchwell Leney]], ''View of the Botanic Garden of the State of New York'', 1828.  
 +
 +
Image:0662.jpg|1830-40?
 +
 +
Image:0938.jpg|1835
 +
 +
Image:0362.jpg|1849
 +
 +
Image:0912.jpg|1850
 +
 +
Image:0914.jpg|1850
  
 
Image:0041.jpg|Anonymous, Capitol Under Construction, View Looking East Toward the Capitol From Third Street Vicinity, July 1860.
 
Image:0041.jpg|Anonymous, Capitol Under Construction, View Looking East Toward the Capitol From Third Street Vicinity, July 1860.
 +
 +
Image:0334.jpg|c. 1861
  
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
Line 55: Line 95:
 
<span id="roundabout_img"></span>
 
<span id="roundabout_img"></span>
 
<gallery widths="170px" heights="170px" perrow="7">
 
<gallery widths="170px" heights="170px" perrow="7">
 +
 +
Image:0471.jpg|1803
 +
 +
Image:0743.jpg|1813
 +
 +
Image:0464.jpg|1834
  
 
Image:0104.jpg|[[Joseph Jacques Ramée]], Estate plan for Calverton [detail], c. 1816, in ''Parcs & jardins'' (c. 1836), pl. 1.
 
Image:0104.jpg|[[Joseph Jacques Ramée]], Estate plan for Calverton [detail], c. 1816, in ''Parcs & jardins'' (c. 1836), pl. 1.
 +
 +
Image:0959.jpg|April 1848
  
 
Image:0218.jpg|[[Augustus Weidenbach]], ''Belvedere'', c. 1858.  
 
Image:0218.jpg|[[Augustus Weidenbach]], ''Belvedere'', c. 1858.  

Revision as of 16:08, February 11, 2015

(Green house, Green-house)
See also: Conservatory, Hothouse, Nursery, Orangery

History

Texts

Usage

"I went... to visit Robert Morris’s greenhouse [serre chaud] near Philadelphia. It had very beautiful specimens of orange trees, lemon trees, and pineapples.]
  • c. September 6, 1797, A Schedule of Property within the State of Pennsylvania Conveyed by Robert Morris, to the Hon. James Biddle, Esq. And Mr. William Bell, in Trust for the use and account of the Pennsylvania Property Company [2]
"An Estate called the Hills Situate in the Northern Liberties, near the City of Philadelphia, containing Three hundred acres of land highly improved, and on which are erected a large and elegant greenhouse, with a hot house of fifty feet on each side; on the back front a House for a gardener, with one large and five small rooms, also two large rooms on the back or north front of the hot house, with an excellent vault under the green houses, and a covered room for preserving roots & c in winter; the whole being a strong stone building, with the necessary glasses, casements, fruit trees, plants shrubs & c in good order; a well of excellent water, with a pump close to the north front the whole enclosed within a large Garden stocked with fruit trees of the best kind &c. & c."

Citations

Images

Inscribed

  • n.d.

  • Samuel Vaughan, Plan of the buildings and grounds of Mount Vernon, 1787.

  • 1803

  • February 19, 1805

  • Charles Willson Peale, Letter to Angelica Peale describing his garden at Belfield, November 22, 1815.

  • Anonymous, "Map of Mr. Andrew Parmentier's Horticultural and Botanic Garden, at Brooklyn, Long Island, Two Miles From the City of New York," c. 1828.

  • 1841

  • March 31, 1841

  • 1843

  • 1848

  • December 1849

  • 1851

  • 1851

  • 1851

  • G. & F. Bill (firm), Birds eye view of Mt. Vernon the home of Washington, c. 1859.

Associated

  • Anonymous, Mount Clare, n.d

  • c. 1787-92

  • c. 1792

  • Jeremiah Paul, “Robert Morris’ Seat on Schuylkill,” July 20, 1794.

  • John Archibald Woodside, Lemon Hill, 1807.

  • William Russell Birch, "Woodlands, the Seat of Mr. Wm. Hamilton, Pennsylva.," 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, The Country Seats of the United States (2009), p. 69, pl. 14.

  • Hugh Reinagle, Elgin Garden on Fifth Avenue, c. 1812.

  • Charles Willson Peale, View of the garden at Belfield, 1816.

  • 1820-25

  • William Satchwell Leney, View of the Botanic Garden of the State of New York, 1828.

  • 1830-40?

  • 1835

  • 1849

  • 1850

  • 1850

  • Anonymous, Capitol Under Construction, View Looking East Toward the Capitol From Third Street Vicinity, July 1860.

  • c. 1861

Attributed

  • 1803

  • 1813

  • 1834

  • Joseph Jacques Ramée, Estate plan for Calverton [detail], c. 1816, in Parcs & jardins (c. 1836), pl. 1.

  • April 1848

  • Augustus Weidenbach, Belvedere, c. 1858.

  • Anonymous, House Lot, Gardens, and Orchard of Bacon's Castle (after an 1843 survey plan), 1911, in Peter Martin, The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson (1991), p. 10. fig. 5.

Notes

  1. ↑ Moreau de St. Méry's American Journey (1793-1798), trans. and ed. Kenneth Roberts and Anna M. Roberts (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947) 240, view on Zotero.
  2. ↑ A Schedule of Property within the State of Pennsylvania Conveyed by Robert Morris, to the Hon. James Biddle, Esq. And Mr. William Bell, in Trust for the use and account of the Pennsylvania Property Company, c. September 6, 1797, Autograph Collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, original MS reproduced Robbins, 1987, 136, view on Zotero.

Retrieved from "https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Greenhouse&oldid=6538"

History of Early American Landscape Design contributors, "Greenhouse," History of Early American Landscape Design, , https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Greenhouse&oldid=6538 (accessed May 5, 2024).

A Project of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

National Gallery of Art, Washington
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
National Gallery of Art wordmark