Governor's Palace, Rear Elevation From Arbor

Governor's Palace, Rear Elevation From Arbor

Block 20. Building 03.

Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)

Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg

Public buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg

Gardens -- Virginia -- Williamsburg

Rear elevation view of the formal gardens behind the Palace, as observed from a pleached hornbeam arbor, 1935. These gardens, designed by Arthur Shurcliff, include boxwood parterres and one dozen large cylindrical shrubs known as the Twelve Apostles, a feature often appearing in eighteenth-century English gardens.

Lincoln, F.S.

1935

1935

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Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Gelatin or collodian printing out paper with platinum toning, mounted on board

8x10 inches