The Bodleian Plate

The Bodleian Plate

Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg

Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)

Wren Building (Williamsburg, Va.)

Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)

Lantern Slides - Hand colored - 1930-1940

Lantern slide featuring a photograph of an engraving made from the Bodleian plate, an 18th-century copperplate discovered at the Bodleian Library that provided crucial visual evidence of the appearance of several public buildings in 18th-century Williamsburg.

This was one of the most exciting and important discoveries during the initial research carried out by Foundation historians. Mary Goodwin, a cousin of Dr. Goodwin, found this 18th-century copper plate at Oxford University's Bodleian Library. It is thought to have been an illustration created for an unpublished description of Virginia by William Byrd II.

A. D. Handy Co.

Ca. 1930

Peter Hornbeck Lantern Slides Collection AV-2000.9 Box 1

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HLS-11

Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Lantern slide

3.25 x 4 inches