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Sir Uvedale Price, portrait by an unknown artist; in the British Museum

Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet

British landscape designer

Downing, Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Downing

American horticulturalist and landscape architect

Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.

Architecture: The Built World