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Statue
of a whole living being” (view text). Other terms, such as “figure,” “sculpture,” “bust,” and “image,” were used with some frequency. Thomas Jefferson

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Fountain
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 Rush

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Arch
on boards cut the outlines of said figures as representing statues in sculpture.” back up to History Peale, Charles Willson, c. 1825, describing Philadelphia

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J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon
imitations, or resemblances, according to the manner of that art. Thus, sculpture does not attempt colour, nor painting to raise surfaces in relief; and

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Vase/Urn
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] (which

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Landscape gardening
imitations, or resemblances, according to the manner of that art. Thus, sculpture does not attempt colour, not painting to raise surfaces in relief; and

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Gate/Gateway
suitable niches or platforms for statuary, urns, crests or other decorative sculpture and carving. In Boston in 1721 Judge Samuel Sewall decorated his gate leading

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Gardenesque
imitations, or resemblances, according to the manner of that art. Thus, sculpture does not attempt colour, nor painting to raise surfaces in relief; and

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Washington Monument (Baltimore, MD)
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 [Fig

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Belfield
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]

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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

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Solomon Willard
a polymath who devoted himself to a wide range of pursuits: carpentry, sculpture, architecture, geology, chemistry, and agriculture, among them. Although

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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

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Washington Monument (Washington, DC)
by a colonnaded Greek temple replete with statuary, ornamental relief sculptures, and murals representing historical events. Construction began in 1848

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Temple
place of resort and instruction and held a harpsichord and a piece of sculpture. The term “temple” was often used interchangeably with “pavilion,” “pleasure”

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French style
elevation, with niches and recesses for statues, vases and other ornaments of sculpture.” Loudon, Jane, 1845, Gardening for Ladies (1845: 210) “The French garden

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Dutch style
out with parallel axes, complex parterres, Italo-French fountains and sculpture, and geometrical topiary. In An Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1826), J. C

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Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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)

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Charles Willson Peale
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-pond

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Ancient style
associated with the modern garden, such as temples, summerhouses, architecture, sculpture, and water features, also appeared in the ancient-style garden. The difference

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