Watercolor map of Blithewood

painter: Davis, Alexander Jackson

cultural landscapes; historic landscapes

Annandale-on-Hudson, Dutchess, New York, United States; Hudson River, United States

Downing, Andrew Jackson

Bard College (American educational institution, founded 1860

This image is scanned from Robert A. Toole’s 2010 book, 'Landscape Gardens on the Hudson, a History,' in which he describes this as “one of the best site plans to survive showing a Picturesque landscape garden.” Original watercolor housed in the Avery Library, Columbia University. Blithewood Garden is an early 20th century formal Italianate garden built in a 19th century Picturesque landscape.

Romantic (modern European styles )

Bard College

ca. 1840

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