COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Scrapbook kept by Lawson during his years as a student at the American Academy in Rome, as a "Prix de Rome" winner in landscape architecture. Includes photographs and measured drawings of buildings and architectural details, planting lists, plans, and elevations, primarily in Italy. Also, photographs of plans of American cemeteries in France and England, 1921; photographs of Lawson, and of a portrait of Lawson; photographs of unidentified architectural details and plans; measured drawings of unidentified details; and a postcard and note sent to Lawson.
Also bound volumes from the American Academy in Rome, with article and photographs of the Villa Gamberaia, by Edward Lawson, compiled by Edward Lawson, 1927; Villa Medici, Rome, written and compiled by Edward Lawson, 1930; Villa d'Este at Tivoli, by Michael Rapuano, compiled by Lawson, 1933; Villa Palmieri, Florence, by Michael Rapuano, compiled by Lawson, 1935; Villa Medici at Fiesole near Florence, by Norman T. Newton, compiled by Lawson, 1935; and Villa Cicogna Bisuschio, by Ralph E. Griswold, compiled by Lawson, 1937. Includes colored architectural drawing of the Villa Camberaia at Settignano created by Lawson.
Lantern slides (8) of illustrations from Lawson's Rome Prize thesis.
Dates
- 1915-1937.
Creator
- Lawson, Edward G. (Edward Godfrey), 1884-1968. (Person)
- Rapuano, Michael. (Person)
- Newton, Norman T., 1898-1992. (Person)
- Griswold, Ralph E. (Ralph Esty), 1894-1981. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Edward Godfrey Lawson was born in Buffalo, N.Y. on October 29, 1884. He attended Cornell University, receiving a B.S. in 1913 and a Master of Landscape Design in 1914. Awarded the "Prix de Rome" in Landscape Architecture in 1915, he studied at the American Academy in Rome, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy in 1920. During World War I, he served in the Italian Red Cross, from 1917 to 1919. From 1920 to 1922, Lawson planned military cemeteries in France, England, and Belgium for the U.S. Graves Registration Service, Paris. He returned to the United States, and was appointed assistant professor of landscape architecture at Cornell in 1922, where he taught until ca.1940. He worked for the House of Herbs, the first center of herb culture in the United States, until his retirement in 1964. On January 4, 1968, Lawson died at Winter Park, Florida.
Extent
3.4 cubic feet. (3.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Scrapbook kept by Lawson during his years as a student at the American Academy in Rome, as a "Prix de Rome" winner in landscape architecture. Includes photographs and measured drawings of buildings and architectural details, planting lists, plans, and elevations, primarily in Italy. Also, photographs of plans of American cemeteries in France and England, 1921; photographs of Lawson, and of a portrait of Lawson; photographs of unidentified architectural details and plans; measured drawings of unidentified details; and a postcard and note sent to Lawson. Bound volumes from the American Academy in Rome and Lantern slides of illustrations from Lawson's Rome Prize thesis
Physical Description
Photographs, a scrapbook, drawings, correspondence, and other materials.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- R.M. Moudry
- Date completed:
- February 1986
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2003
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, December 2012
- American Academy in Rome
- Architectural drawings.
- Cemeteries -- Landscape architecture.
- Landscape architects.
- Landscape architecture.
- Lantern slides.
- National cemeteries, American.
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks.
- Villa Cicogna (Bisuschio, Italy)
- Villa Gamberaia (Florence, Italy)
- Villa Medici
- Villa Medici (Florence, Italy)
- Villa Palmieri (Florence, Italy)
- Villa d\'Este (Tivoli, Italy)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R.M. Moudry
- Date
- May 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu