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St. Peter's Church New Kent Co. Va. – Antique Print

St. Peter's Church New Kent Co. Va., [1864] — historic drawing
St. Peter's Church New Kent Co. Va., [1864]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic drawing captures St. Peter's Church New Kent Co. Va. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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St. Peter's Church New Kent Co. Va.

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Unlike the other views of this church in the collection, this watercolor shows St. Peter's in New Kent County, Virginia, with Union soldiers in the scene, which places it in the Peninsula campaign's wartime landscape. The church, built in the early 1700s, stood near the White House estate on the Pamunkey River, a region that changed hands repeatedly as armies moved up and down the peninsula in 1862 through 1864. The artist, identified only as McIlvaine in the inscription, worked in watercolor over a graphite underdrawing, a method that let field observers record buildings quickly and in color.

Created / published[1864]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor over graphite underdrawing.
GenreDrawings American Color 1860-1870.
NotesInscribed lower right, and partially obscured: St. Peters Church, Va. McIlvaine. For similar view, see: DRWG/US - McIlvaine, no. 2 (AA size). For other views of the church, see DRWG/US - McIlvaine, no. 19 and 20 (A size) . Gift; Ladies Mount Vernon Association; 1935; (DLC/PP-1935:19).
SubjectsChurches--Virginia--1860-1870. Soldiers--Union--Virginia--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.United States--Virginia--White House
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,120 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175996

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