[Two homes]: 1. Belle Air, Collington, Md. Built 1757. 2. Tulip Hill, West River, Md. Built 1759 – Vintage Print
![[Two homes]: 1. Belle Air, Collington, Md. Built 1757. 2. Tulip Hill, West River, Md. Built 1759, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a5ae159cfa04-L.webp)
(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 print captures [Two homes]: 1. Belle Air, Collington, Md. Built 1757. 2. Tulip Hill, West River, Md. Built 1759 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Two homes]: 1. Belle Air, Collington, Md. Built 1757. 2. Tulip Hill, West River, Md. Built 1759
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Two Maryland country houses share this plate: Belle Air, near Collington, which the caption dates to 1757, and Tulip Hill on the West River, dated to 1759. Both stand in the Chesapeake tidewater, where prosperous planters built brick houses in the Georgian style during the mid-1700s, funded by tobacco and worked by enslaved laborers. The views were reproduced by the Heliotype Printing Company of Boston, a photomechanical firm, for a published survey of colonial domestic architecture, reflecting the late nineteenth-century revival of interest in early American building. The print itself has no recorded date, and the building dates come from an unverified caption card.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Notes | 2 heliotpyes by the Heliotype Printing Co., Boston, in Examples of Domestic Colonial Architecture, plate 50. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Archit. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,223 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158048 |
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