UVA alumna Jenny Jones, who earned a Master of Landscape Architecture degree in 2010, made conjectural drawings of what the garden may have looked like, had it been built, to accompany fellow grad student Lily Fox-Bruguiere’s 2010 master’s thesis in architectural history, “An Uncultivated Legacy: Jefferson’s Botanical Garden at the University of Virginia.” Jones’ drawings, too, are part of the exhibit.
Fox-Bruguiere argued that Jefferson intended the botanical garden to be an integral part of the University, according to exhibition curator David Whitesell. “The conjectural drawings were completed to the specifications found in Jefferson’s letters as they may have appeared in the 1830s,” Whitesell said.
The exhibit is on view in the First-Floor Gallery of Harrison/Small through June 29.