The archaeology of vision in eighteenth-century Chesapeake gardens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9375895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Kryder-Reid (0000-0002-4835-9667, National Gallery of Art, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-54 |
| Publication date | 1994-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Garden History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-5170 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01445170.1994.10412496 |
| OpenAlex | W1985983660 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 18 |
During the eighteenth century, travelers throughout America's mid-Atlantic region often recorded in diaries and letters the scenery they observed on their journeys. As they rode inland along the river valleys or followed roads connecting coastal ports, these writers repeatedly used specific terms to capture their experience of sight in the landscape. This vocabulary of vision—view, vista, eminence, situation, prospect—appears in descriptions of both the natural landscape and the estates of the colonial planter-gentry. Describing Gov. John Howard's garden in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1794, Thomas Twining wrote
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 1999 - 2020 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |