Governor's Palace North Facade Through Clairvoyee

Governor's Palace North Facade Through Clairvoyee

Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 20. Building 03.

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Exterior view of the Governor's Palace Ballroom Wing and formal gardens, north facade, as seen through an elaborate clairvoyée (wrought-iron gate) behind the Palace, 1933. The Ballroom Wing of the Palace, featured in the background, was built as an addition during the 1750s by Governor Robert Dinwiddie. Above its rear doors, a painted carving of the royal coat of arms is mounted within a pedimented gable. The Palace's gardens, designed by Arthur Shurcliff, include boxwood parterres and one dozen large cylindrical shrubs known as the Twelve Apostles, a feature which often appeared in eighteenth-century English gardens.

Shaw, Thomas Mott

1933

1933

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

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32.5 x 47 cm