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The general in the garden : George Washington's landscape at Mount Vernon

Title
The general in the garden : George Washington's landscape at Mount Vernon / essays by Adam T. Erby, J. Dean Norton, Esther C. White ; Susan P. Schoelwer, editor ; foreword by Andrea Wulf.
Author
Erby, Adam T.
Publication
  • Mount Vernon, Virginia : Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 2015.
  • Charlottesville, Virginia : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, [date of distribution not identified]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Norton, J. Dean
  • White, Esther C.
  • Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast
  • Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union.
Description
xiv, 190 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm
Subject
  • Washington, George, 1732-1799 > Homes and haunts > Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate)
  • Landscape design > Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate) > History > 18th century
  • Mount Vernon Gardens (Va.)
  • Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
Note
  • "Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington for the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 173) and indexes.
Contents
Designing the beautiful: General Washington's landscape improvements, 1784-1787 / Adam T. Erby -- George Washington's gardens: under the watchful eye of the Mount Vernon Ladies / J. Dean Norton -- "Laid out in squares, and boxed with great precission": uncovering George Washington's upper garden / Esther C. White -- Gardens & groves: a landscape guide / Adam T. Erby -- The views: bowling green, upper garden, greenhouse and slave quarter, lower garden, botanical garden, outbuildings, the lost deer park.
Call Number
ITD (Mount Vernon) 16-3696
ISBN
  • 9780931917486
  • 0931917484
LCCN
2013047173
OCLC
908175477
Author
Erby, Adam T., author.
Title
The general in the garden : George Washington's landscape at Mount Vernon / essays by Adam T. Erby, J. Dean Norton, Esther C. White ; Susan P. Schoelwer, editor ; foreword by Andrea Wulf.
Publisher
Mount Vernon, Virginia : Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 2015.
Distributor
Charlottesville, Virginia : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, [date of distribution not identified]
Copyright Date
©2015
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 173) and indexes.
Local Note
PICTORIAL WORK. BASED ON 2014-2016 EXHIBITION. DIST. BY UNIV. OF VIRGINIA PRESS.
Added Author
Norton, J. Dean, author.
White, Esther C., author.
Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast, editor.
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union.
Research Call Number
ITD (Mount Vernon) 16-3696
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