Dumbarton Oaks Garden Designer
16 x 20 cm.
Dumbarton oaks garden designer. Digital facsimile 100 leaves of plates. Dumbarton oaks in washington d c the. The garden and landscape studies program was established in 1972 to support advanced scholarship in garden history and landscape architecture encompassing the study of culturally and artistically significant landscapes around the world from ancient times to the present.
In 1920 after a long and careful search mildred and robert woods bliss found their ideal country house and garden within washington dc. Dumbarton oaks washington d c. Dumbarton oaks research library and collection 1703 32nd street nw.
Title from bookseller lucien goldschmidt data sheet. Woodrow wilson and princeton university figured among her prominent clients. Ninety nine 99 original garden designs 45 in sepia ink 54 outlined in sepia ink and hand colored.
Beatrix cadwalader farrand née jones. Within a year the blisses hired landscape gardener beatrix farrand to design the garden. They purchased a fifty three acre property described as an old fashioned house standing in rather neglected grounds at the highest point of georgetown.