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Design for a Garden

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Landscape design for a canal garden in asymmetrical plan with free-form beds and serpentine walks. A combination of plan and elevation views indicate trees and flowering shrubs with accentuating colorful touches of bulbs or annuals along the edges of the beds. Blank inscription plaque top center of garden. Scale noted bottom left.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Jan David Zocher the Younger, 1791–1870
Date
1856
Credit Line
Museum purchase through bequest of Ida McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on cream paper
Dimensions
32.4 x 38.4 cm (12 3/4 x 15 1/8 in.)
Type
architecture
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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