“The sketches … show the contrast of the benevolence of nature, and the ingenuity o
“The sketches … show the contrast of the benevolence of nature, and the ingenuity of man. Under the spreading oak on the left every hour of the day is shady & cool, to the right may be easily recognized the old arrangment of a Virginian plantation. It appears as if the War waged by Agriculture against our forests, had been a War of extermination …”From: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. An essay on landscape, explained in tinted drawings. Richmond, Va., 1798-1799Accession no. 25060; Miscellaneous reel 290 -- source link
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