Proposed plan for Anderson Park, Essex County, New Jersey

People:

Olmsted Brothers (landscape architects)
Essex County (N.J.). Park Commission (client)

Title:

Proposed plan for Anderson Park, Essex County, New Jersey

Date:

1912

Description:

- A print with hand-coloured additions, showing a plan for a park bordered on three sides by roads and on a fourth by a rail line. The area of the park is roughly triangular and open in the centre, the plantings and enveloping informal pathways being confined to the edges.

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Stage and Purpose:

presentation drawing (proposal)

Technique and media:

Diazotype ? with green watercolour added

Dimensions:

sheet: 71.3 x 87.5 cm

Reference number:

DR1987:0035

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)
site plan

Inscription:

imprinted - u.l.: "ESSEX COUNTY PARK COMMISSION / GENERAL PLAN FOR / ANDERSON PARK / NEWWARK, N.J. / A. M. REYNOLDS ENGINEER AND SUPERINTENDENT / OLMSTED BROTHERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS / 1912"; with a list of commissioners, approximate areas, and the names of bordering streets and rail lines; l.l.: "Plan No. 35"; l.r.: "R. E. Sawyer Del." inscribed - by a contemporary hand, in pen and black ink, verso, u.l. and repeated l.r.: "953 / 629 [crossed out] Colored Print Anderson Park."

Subject:

landscape architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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