Esher Place: the garden theater, designed by Ernest Law.

Object Details

General: Mount reads: "Edward Van Altena, 71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C."; Historic plate number: "5."; Historic plate caption: "English."; Esher Place was visited during the Garden Club of America's June 1929 tour to England. A complete copy of the GCA tour itinerary was printed in the Bulletin of the Garden Club of America (Fourth Series, No. 5), September 1929, pp. 6-25. ENG120005 is a black-and-white lantern slide of this image.

Place: Esher Place (Esher, Surrey, England); United Kingdom -- England -- Surrey -- Esher

Topic: Summer; Sunken gardens; Sculpture; Hedges; Arches; Gardens -- England -- Surrey -- Esher; Amphitheaters

See more items in: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 2: International Garden Images / United Kingdom -- England / ENG008: Esher -- Esher Place

Sponsor: A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

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