Poplar Forest (signed + print)

by Rob McDonald


Photographs: Rob McDonald

Text: Sam Witt

Publisher: Horse & Buggy Press

32 pages

Year: 2010

Price: 55

Comments: limited edition of 300 hand-sewn copies; printed on an Indigo press; text is letterpress printed by hand; eggshell-finish Mohawk Superfine; 15.24 x 20.32 cm

In 1806, Thomas Jefferson began construction on a personal retreat near Bedford, Virginia, some ninety miles from his home, Monticello. He transformed nearly five thousand acres of pristine farmland and woods into a modestly equipped estate he called Poplar Forest.

Jefferson visited Poplar Forest regularly during construction and after the house was complete. He found there, as he wrote to a friend, “the solitude of a hermit.” Rob McDonald’s photographs of Poplar Forest explore the notion of retreat, of private space, which we all—even a man so great as Jefferson—require and seek instinctively.


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Poplar Forest (signed + print)

by Rob McDonald


Photographs: Rob McDonald

Text: Sam Witt

Publisher: Horse & Buggy Press

32 pages

Year: 2010

Price: 55

Comments: limited edition of 300 hand-sewn copies; printed on an Indigo press; text is letterpress printed by hand; eggshell-finish Mohawk Superfine; 15.24 x 20.32 cm

In 1806, Thomas Jefferson began construction on a personal retreat near Bedford, Virginia, some ninety miles from his home, Monticello. He transformed nearly five thousand acres of pristine farmland and woods into a modestly equipped estate he called Poplar Forest.

Jefferson visited Poplar Forest regularly during construction and after the house was complete. He found there, as he wrote to a friend, “the solitude of a hermit.” Rob McDonald’s photographs of Poplar Forest explore the notion of retreat, of private space, which we all—even a man so great as Jefferson—require and seek instinctively.


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Poplar Forest (signed + print)

by Rob McDonald


Photographs: Rob McDonald

Text: Sam Witt

Publisher: Horse & Buggy Press

32 pages

Year: 2010

Price: 55

Comments: limited edition of 300 hand-sewn copies; printed on an Indigo press; text is letterpress printed by hand; eggshell-finish Mohawk Superfine; 15.24 x 20.32 cm

In 1806, Thomas Jefferson began construction on a personal retreat near Bedford, Virginia, some ninety miles from his home, Monticello. He transformed nearly five thousand acres of pristine farmland and woods into a modestly equipped estate he called Poplar Forest.

Jefferson visited Poplar Forest regularly during construction and after the house was complete. He found there, as he wrote to a friend, “the solitude of a hermit.” Rob McDonald’s photographs of Poplar Forest explore the notion of retreat, of private space, which we all—even a man so great as Jefferson—require and seek instinctively.


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