Art

  • Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg FoundationPlan of Chamber Floor, plate 41 in John Plaw, Sketches for Country Houses, Villas, and Rural Dwellings; Calculated for Persons of Moderate Income, and for Comfortable Retirement. Also Some Designs for Cottages, Which May Be Constructed of the Simplest Materials; with Plans and General Estimates (London, 1800). Courtesy, Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, call no. NA 7562.P6.
  • Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg FoundationSouth East Elevation in Perspective, plate 41 in John Plaw, Sketches for Country Houses, Villas, and Rural Dwellings; Calculated for Persons of Moderate Income, and for Comfortable Retirement. Also Some Designs for Cottages, Which May Be Constructed of the Simplest Materials; with Plans and General Estimates (London, 1800). Courtesy, Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, call no. NA 7562.P6.

  • Photograph courtesy of Kris Lane, College of William and MaryNossa Senhora do Rosário (Our Lady of the Rosary), architect unknown, Ouro Preto, Brazil, 1785. Located in the old colonial capital of the gold and diamond mining district of Minas Gerais, Nossa Senhora do Rosário was attended by members of the black confraternity, or irmandade, of the Holy Rosary. Members of this lay sodality, which included women, supported church and chapel construction, decoration, and maintenance and aided each other with burial expenses. Such churches were usually adorned with statues and paintings of black saints. Photograph and description courtesy of Kris Lane, College of William and Mary.

  • Photograph courtesy of Kris Lane, College of William and MaryChurch of St. Francis of Assisi, by Antonio Francisco Lisboa (c. 1738–1814), Ouro Preto, Brazil, 1766. Known as Aleijadinho, the “little cripple,” Lisboa was the illegitimate son of a Portuguese carpenter and a slave. Although he excelled at sculpture and design, his mixed heritage restricted him to manual labor for making a living. This is his Baroque/Rococo masterpiece. At about age forty Aleijadinho developed what was probably leprosy and worked with tools tied to his stumps, aided by at least three slaves. Photograph and description courtesy of Kris Lane, College of William and Mary.

  • Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg FoundationDetail, Prior Park the Seat of Ralph Allen Esq. near Bath, by Anthony Walker, London, 1750. Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, acc. no. 1952-378.
  • Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg FoundationIbid.
  • Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown UniversityComble de Moulin, engraving in Jean Baptiste Labat, Nouveau voyage aux isles de l’Amerique, vol. 3 (Paris, 1722), foldout plate following p. 222. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, acc. no. 09905-3.

  • Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Detail, Toll-Gates, in William Henry Pyne, Microcosm: Or, A Picturesque Delineation of the Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, &c. of Great Britain, in a Series of Above a Thousand Groups of Small Figures for the Embellishment of Landscape . . . , 2d ed., vol. 1 (London, 1806), plate 93. Courtesy, Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

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    Detail, A North West View of St. Pauls Cathedral, London, by J. S. Muller, London, 1753. Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, acc. no. 1947-35.