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Prophet with honor : the career of Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852 / [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XI ; edited by George B. Tatum and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall].

Title: Prophet with honor : the career of Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852 / [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XI ; edited by George B. Tatum and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall].
Author: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (11th : 1987)
Publication: [Philadelphia, Pa.] : Athenaeum of Philadelphia ; Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c1989.

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324 p. : ill., plans, port.; 26 cm.

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Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Roger W. Moss and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall -- Introduction : the Downing decade (1841-1852) / George B. Tatum -- Nature's gardener / George B. Tatum -- Davis and Downing : collaborators in the picturesque / Jane B. Davies -- Andrew Jackson Downing and pomology / Gordon P. De Wolf, Jr. -- The new "pattern books" and the role of the agricultural press / Charles B. Wood III -- Downing and the rationalization of interior design / Kenneth L. Ames -- Matthew Vassar's Springside : " ... the hand of art, when guided by taste" / Harvey K. Flad -- The architectural legacy of Andrew Jackson Downing / Francis R. Kowsky -- The Washington Park and Downing's legacy to public landscape design / David Schuyler.

ISBN

0884021785 (Dumbarton Oaks) :

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^^^88013943^

OCLC

18557312

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