Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Andrew Jackson Downing
Born: October 31, 1815
Died: July 28, 1852 (aged 36)
Bio: Andrew Jackson Downing was an American landscape designer, horticulturalist, and writer, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of The Horticulturist magazine. Downing is considered to be a founder of American landscape architecture.
Known for:
- The architecture of country houses (1850)
- Victorian cottage residences
- Rural essays