[A Louisiana plantation] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise. – Vintage Print
![[A Louisiana plantation] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise., [between 1920 and 1940?] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cc/ccff5a5bc4b4-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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[A Louisiana plantation] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise. comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[A Louisiana plantation] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise.
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This watercolor depicts a Louisiana plantation, and its record says it was based on an earlier watercolor preserved in a notarial record plan book. Plan books kept by Louisiana notaries held surveys and maps tied to property transactions, so the source image was likely meant to document land and its boundaries rather than to serve as art. The catalog dates the work only tentatively, between 1920 and 1940, and gives a conflicting genre label of 1890 to 1900, so the exact period of its making remains uncertain. Viewers may want to compare the buildings and landscape with other records of Louisiana plantations from that era.
| Created / published | [between 1920 and 1940?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors American 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Based on a water-colour in the Notarial Record Plan Book."" |
| Subjects | Plantations--1920-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 603 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173875 |
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