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FYI:
There is a nice portrait of Andrew Jackson Downing posted on DeadFred.com:
http://www.deadfred.com/surnamePersR_05.php?ID=82618
This portrait of Andrew Jackson Downing appears as a frontpiece to the Nov issue of The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, vol.VII, 1852. There is a biographical sketch of him on pages 491-500. Downing was an author and editor of horticultural literature. He was born in Newburgh, NY on 31 Oct 1815. He died in a fire on board the steamer Henry Clay in the Hudson river 28 July 1852.
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