A Life of Lines and Landscapes The story begins in East Lulworth, near Wareham, Dorset, England. Born in 1816, Edwin Whitefield carries the quietude of the English countryside across the Atlantic when he emigrates to the United States in 1838. He does not arrive merely as a traveler, but as an observer with a keen eye for the structural and the botanical. His early years in North America are marked by movement through growing urban ce…