Bandstand Gallery

Scenes in Druid Hill Park, 1874. Creator: James H. Richardson

Scenes in Druid Hill Park, 1874. Waterfall, drinking fountain, boating lake and bandstand in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Druid-Hill Park lies immediately on the northern suburbs of the city, and embraces nearly seven hundred acres of well-diversified surface...Quiet, sequestered dells, and cool, shaded valleys, watered by streams and rejoicing in springs of the purest water; drives that wind through meadows and woods; bridle-paths and foot-ways that seldom leave the welcome shadow of the trees, render the park one of great rural beauty and sylvan seclusion. It is indeed not a made show-ground, but a park with all a park's natural attractiveness of wood and water, grassy lawns, with branching shade-trees and avenues that are lost in forest-depths'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]

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View of the Grand Walk etc in Vauxhall Gardens taken from the Entrance, London, c1760. Artist: Edward Rooker

View of the Grand Walk etc in Vauxhall Gardens taken from the Entrance, London, c1760. Vauxhall Gardens was one of the great pleasure grounds of London and this image shows a formal avenue of trees, a bandstand (right), and fashionably dressed men and women. Engraving after the painting by Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768)

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