The Moore House near Yorktown, Va. (Rear) / McIlvaine. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic drawing captures The Moore House near Yorktown, Va. (Rear) / McIlvaine. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Moore House near Yorktown, Va. (Rear) / McIlvaine.
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Rather than a view of the house's front, this watercolor shows its rear, with the York River opening out beyond it. The inscription identifies that river as the place where the terms of the British surrender were agreed in October 1781. The Moore House served as the setting for those negotiations, which ended the main fighting of the Revolution. When the painter worked in 1862, Union forces were campaigning on the Yorktown peninsula, so the old battlefield was being seen through a wartime lens.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Inscribed: Looking upon York River - where the terms of capitulation were agreed upon by which the British Army surrendered to Genl. Washington. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Houses--Virginia--Yorktown--1860-1870. Yorktown (Va.)--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.United States--Virginia--Yorktown |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,657 × 3,782 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220256 |
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