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George Washington's eye : landscape, architecture, and design at Mount Vernon / Joseph Manca.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manca, Joseph, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate).
- Washington, George, 1732-1799--Aesthetics.
- Washington, George.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Landscape, architecture, and design at Mount Vernon
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore [Md.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on careful study of Washington's personal diaries and correspondence and on the lively accounts of visitors to his estate, this richly illustrated book introduces a George Washington unfamiliar to many readers--an avid art collector, amateur architect, and leading landscape designer of his time.
- Contents:
- George Washington : morality and the crafting of self
- The mansion house at Mount Vernon, and other architectural designs
- George Washington's portico
- Washington as gardener : creating the landscape
- Mount Vernon and British gardening
- "The finest view in the world" : prospects, pictures, and the picturesque
- Washington as artist, critic, patron, and collector
- "Under my vine and fig-tree " : biblical and classical perfection at Mount Vernon
- Epilogue. Mount Vernon in the American imagination
- Abbreviations for frequently cited sources.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0561-X
- OCLC:
- 823655168
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