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- of a whole living being” (view text). Other terms, such as “figure,” “sculpture,” “bust,” and “image,” were used with some frequency. Thomas Jefferson60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
- discussion of Rush’s sculpture, see D. Dodge Thompson, “The Public Work of William Rush: A Case Study in the Origins of American Sculpture,” in William Rush68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
- imitations, or resemblances, according to the manner of that art. Thus, sculpture does not attempt colour, nor painting to raise surfaces in relief; and35 KB (4,313 words) - 14:41, September 21, 2021
- on boards cut the outlines of said figures as representing statues in sculpture.” back up to History Peale, Charles Willson, c. 1825, describing Philadelphia26 KB (3,438 words) - 16:44, March 15, 2021
- imitations, or resemblances, according to the manner of that art. Thus, sculpture does not attempt colour, not painting to raise surfaces in relief; and66 KB (9,707 words) - 12:44, February 18, 2021
- suitable niches or platforms for statuary, urns, crests or other decorative sculpture and carving. In Boston in 1721 Judge Samuel Sewall decorated his gate leading49 KB (6,655 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
- can scarce have too many of them in a Garden: But, as in the Business of Sculpture, it should be excellent, as well as in Painting and Poesy [sic] (which39 KB (5,376 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
- imitations, or resemblances, according to the manner of that art. Thus, sculpture does not attempt colour, nor painting to raise surfaces in relief; and30 KB (4,397 words) - 16:03, July 14, 2020
- on boards cut the outlines of said figures as representing statues in sculpture. And [so that] his design of those figures might be fully understood [by]27 KB (3,621 words) - 19:53, September 1, 2021
- floor of the house.” [Fig. 9] Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1806, describing a sculpture created for the Navy Yard, Washington, DC (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 158)38 KB (4,911 words) - 18:08, September 16, 2021
- boards cut to the outlines of said figures as representing statues in sculpture. . . “Having a good spring-house the water from it supplied a small fish-pond35 KB (4,930 words) - 17:10, September 28, 2021
- place of resort and instruction and held a harpsichord and a piece of sculpture. The term “temple” was often used interchangeably with “pavilion,” “pleasure”44 KB (5,866 words) - 14:29, April 1, 2021
- associated with the modern garden, such as temples, summerhouses, architecture, sculpture, and water features, also appeared in the ancient-style garden. The difference33 KB (4,411 words) - 11:25, March 15, 2021
- elevation, with niches and recesses for statues, vases and other ornaments of sculpture.” Loudon, Jane, 1845, Gardening for Ladies (1845: 210) “The French garden27 KB (3,515 words) - 10:45, April 6, 2021
- built of stone, or marble, and magnificently adorned with architecture, sculpture, inscriptions, &c. serving not only to adorn a triumph, at the return from44 KB (6,010 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
- triumphal arch as the base for a 120-foot Doric column surmounted by a sculpture of Washington in a quadriga guided by a personification of Victory [Fig17 KB (2,082 words) - 19:52, August 30, 2021
- rubbish, and kept as a curiosity. “3. In architecture, an ornament of sculpture, placed on socles or pedestals, representing the vessels of the ancients55 KB (8,122 words) - 21:48, October 5, 2021
- boards cut to the outlines of said figures as representing statues in sculpture.” Sheldon, John P., December 10, 1825, describing Fairmount Waterworks85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
- out with parallel axes, complex parterres, Italo-French fountains and sculpture, and geometrical topiary. In An Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1826), J. C19 KB (2,638 words) - 19:00, March 17, 2021
- together of all sorts of stones, bricks, shells, fragments of statuary or sculpture, and even roots of trees; which latter object, though very suitable as36 KB (5,332 words) - 09:57, February 18, 2021
- proposed that it contain, among other attractions, carriage rides, monumental sculpture, water works, and walks set within green fields. Although Downing did not87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
- for the friends of the deceased, or striking exhibitions of monumental sculpture, though all these have their influence. All these might be realized in71 KB (10,152 words) - 10:36, April 6, 2021
- together of all sorts of stones, bricks, shells, fragments of statuary or sculpture, and even roots of trees; which latter object, though very suitable as51 KB (7,945 words) - 14:57, September 21, 2021
- 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, makes88 KB (12,511 words) - 20:49, March 29, 2021
- 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, 179124 KB (2,854 words) - 18:21, August 17, 2021
- 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 former31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
- known as “Cruger’s folly,” which incorporated real fragments of Mayan sculpture. Downing’s use of Blithewood as an exemplar of good taste in landscape75 KB (10,290 words) - 18:14, August 24, 2021
- a polymath who devoted himself to a wide range of pursuits: carpentry, sculpture, architecture, geology, chemistry, and agriculture, among them. Although8 KB (910 words) - 22:55, August 11, 2021
- 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 keeping37 KB (5,144 words) - 14:29, February 17, 2021
- by a colonnaded Greek temple replete with statuary, ornamental relief sculptures, and murals representing historical events. Construction began in 184816 KB (2,011 words) - 19:52, August 30, 2021
- because we think so highly artificial and architectural an object as a sculptured vase, is never correctly introduced unless it appear in some way connected18 KB (2,362 words) - 14:47, August 6, 2020
- ornament; they are generally glazed green, but, for superior occasions, are sculptured and painted, or incrusted, &c. “1408. The propagation-pot. . . has a slit31 KB (4,315 words) - 17:29, March 16, 2021
- 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 country26 KB (3,226 words) - 13:56, August 11, 2021
- 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 keeping52 KB (6,854 words) - 17:24, August 19, 2021
- 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
- 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 former54 KB (6,939 words) - 19:38, August 12, 2021
- the president and his family on the portico looking like neoclassical sculpture. It seems the offending beds of geometrical shapes remained popular in43 KB (5,676 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021
- for the friends of the deceased, or striking exhibitions of monumental sculpture, though all these have their influence... The true secret of the attraction26 KB (3,170 words) - 16:03, August 19, 2021
- 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’s37 KB (4,574 words) - 17:22, September 28, 2021
- 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 marble68 KB (8,891 words) - 18:36, August 24, 2021
- 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 former20 KB (2,630 words) - 21:42, August 16, 2021
- garden from F. Leopold Pisani in Florence, maker of marble and alabaster sculptures for wealthy travelers, which she installed throughout the garden upon42 KB (4,682 words) - 17:07, August 26, 2021
