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Mill on the Brandywine, Delaware – Antique Wall Art

Mill on the Brandywine, Delaware, [ca. 1828] — historic drawing
Mill on the Brandywine, Delaware, [ca. 1828]. Historic drawing from the Work & Industry collection.

(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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Few early views of the Brandywine carry a caption as revealing as this one, which wrongly places the mill in New Jersey. The Brandywine Creek in northern Delaware powered a dense string of gristmills and other water-driven works in the early 1800s, and this pen-and-watercolor drawing captures that working valley before large factories transformed the region. Its subject headings link the scene to Matthew Newkirk and his local surroundings, offering a personal thread through the landscape. The mislabeling is worth noticing, since early American views were often captioned from memory rather than checked on site.

Created / published[ca. 1828]
Medium1 drawing : pen and watercolor.
GenreDrawings American Color 1820-1840.
NotesCaption on drawing erroneously identifies the mill as being in New Jersey. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress). Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995, p. 10. (DLC/PP-1996:23.95). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana / Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999, p. 80.
SubjectsNewkirk, Matthew--Homes & haunts--Delaware. Mills--Delaware--1820-1840.United States--Delaware--Brandywine
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,399 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217654

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