Governor's Palace, Bodleian Plate

Governor's Palace, Bodleian Plate

Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 20, Building 03.

Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg

Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940

Lantern slide featuring a photograph of a detail of the Governor's Palace from 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 It is thought to have been an illustration created for an unpublished description of Virginia by William Byrd II.

Byrd, William, 1674-1744

National Geographic Society

Peter Hornbeck Lantern Slides Collection, AV-2000.9, Box 3

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Image

HLS-112

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

Lantern Slide

3.25 x 4 inches