The Genius of Central Park

What did Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect of New York’s Central Park, imagine his design, the Greensward, might look like in the future?

Here is the design that won the competition in 1858:

Here is the view from the blue arrow on the map …

… looking like it might have been done by a 18th-century landscape painter, in the mid-20th century, taken on a phone camera by Len Sobo last week.