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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, 2014.
- [Charlottesville] : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E312.5 .E73 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv 190 pages, 2 unnumbered unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 26 cm
- Subject
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 > Homes and haunts > Mount Vernon (Estate)
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- 1700 - 1799
- Landscape design > Mount Vernon (Estate) > History > 18th century
- Homes
- Landscape design
- Mount Vernon Gardens (Va.)
- Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
- Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate)
- Virginia > Mount Vernon Gardens
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780931917486
- 0931917484
- LCCN
- 2013047173
- OCLC
- ocn864676682
- 864676682
- SCSB-5798457
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries