Victorian Cottage Residences and waves in thick rods

and waves in thick rods

university student

upper new york

The intensely evocative poem provided Doré with the long-awaited opportunity to convey limitless space on a gigantic scale

Victorian Cottage Residences and waves in thick rodsAndrew Jackson Downing (1815 52), the first great American landscape gardener, was one of the earliest and most influential popularizers of something new on the American scene the small, inexpensive detached house. Into a countryside dotted with log cabins and occasional Greek Revival mansions, he introduced the tasteful, efficient cottage residence in all its variations, including Gothic, bracketed, Italianate, and "rustic." His enormously successful