Pleasure Grounds: Andrew Jackson Downing and Montgomery Place

A. J. Downing, the celebrated 19th century landscape architect, reserved his greatest admiration for Montgomery Place, in New YorkÆs pastoral Dutchess County. His personal and professional relationship with the estate and its owners, and his theories of landscape architecture, are recorded through his letters and his famous article, " A Visit to Montgomery Place." Never before published, 14 watercolor sketches by Alexander Jackson Davis, the noted 19th-century architect and DowningÆs long-time collaborator, provide stunning evidence of the beauty and splendor of Montgomery Place.Jacquetta Haley is the author of 'Pleasure Grounds: Andrew Jackson Downing and Montgomery Place', published 1988 under ISBN 9780912882659 and ISBN 0912882654.