The archaeology of vision in eighteenth-century Chesapeake gardens

• Autores: Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 14, Nº 1, 1994, págs. 42-54
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.