The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia : : From Jamestown to Jefferson / / Peter Martin.
Using a rich assortment of illustrations and biographical sketches, Peter Martin relates the experiences of colonial gardeners who shaped the natural beauty of Virginia's wilderness into varied displays of elegance. He shows that ornamental gardening was a scientific, aesthetic, and cultural en...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 .The Beginnings: Garden Images in the Seventeenth Century
- 2. Gardens in Early Williamsburg
- 3. John Custis and William Byrd II: Crosscurrents of Virginia Gardening 1720–1750
- 4. Williamsburg Gardens in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
- 5. The Plantations
- 6. Landscape Gardening at Mount Vernon and Monticello
- 7. Two Gardeners in Williamsburg after the War: Joseph Prentis and St. George Tucker
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index