RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Crying “Taste” in the Wilderness: The Disciples of Andrew Jackson Downing in Georgia
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 15
OP 22
DO 10.3368/lj.1.1.15
VO 1
IS 1
A1 Catherine Howett
YR 1982
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/1/15.abstract
AB Beginning with the 1841 publication of his Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America, the writings of Andrew Jackson Downing have had a powerfully formative effect on the practice of architecture and landscape gardening in this country. Regional responses to Downing's theories, however, tended to be idiosyncratic; this study examines evidence of their influence in antebellum Georgia, where a small group of individuals — some of whom were related to a mid-century movement for agricultural reform — chose to follow them in preference to dominant regional styles.