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  • Collection: Blithewood Garden

The Garden at Blithewood, Barrytown, NY

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The formal gardens with central fountain at Blithewood, now part of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The Hudson River can be seen in the background.

The horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste, August 1846, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 56-57

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A double-page spread from the August 1846 issue of Downing's Horticulturist, titled 'A New Vinery at Blithewood,' and featuring Robert Donaldson's Blithewood.

The New Gate Lodge at Blithewood

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This image is an enlargement of an engraving of the Blithewood Gatehouse designed by A.J. Davis from an edition of A.J. Downing’s Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Rural Architecture and Landscape Gardening. Interestingly, Downing describes…

Verso of photograph of structure known as Zabriskie's Drill Hall

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This photograph was donated to Bard College by J. R. Delafield. This handwritten inscription, signed J. R. Delafield, dates the photograph[h to 1888, and identifies it as ‘the Coach House on the estate of John Bard,’ though the structure dates to…

Watercolor map of Blithewood

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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…