Country Manor
by Scott Pellegrin
Title
Country Manor
Artist
Scott Pellegrin
Medium
Photograph
Description
If you like my Art Gallery, please push the Pinterest, Facebook, Google+, Twitter or SU Buttons! Thank you.
This can be cropped to standard sizes such as 8x10, 11x14 and 20x30. When viewing the image in print,canvas or framed print mode you can choose vertical or horizontal crop. Feel free to email with questions/comments. Thank you for looking.
Fine Art Americas (FAA) watermark does NOT appear on sold art as FAA removes the watermark before each sold copy is "museum quality" printed onto canvass, photo-paper, metal, acrylic or any of FAA's many other available medias regardless of which one is chosen by the buyer.
This is a color image of a grand "Country Manor" just outside of St. Francisville, Louisiana. This is also available in black & white and as a digital painting.
The town of St. Francisville was established in 1809, and a number of historic structures from that period still exist. Called "the town two miles long and two yards wide" because it was developed atop a narrow ridge overlooking the Mississippi River, it was the commercial and cultural center of the surrounding plantation country. Below St. Francisville's bluffs, another early settlement called Bayou Sara had been established in the early 1790s, and was at one time the largest antebellum Mississippi River port between New Orleans and Memphis. Destroyed by repeated flooding and fires, nothing exists of Bayou Sara today, but a few of its structures were hauled up the hill into St. Francisville in the 1920s.
Years of contention as to exactly where the eastern boundary of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase was depending on which treaty was cited; as France, Great Britain, and Spain shifted the territory amongst themselves during the second half of the 18th century allowed Spain to continue to claim territory on the eastern side of the Mississippi River (after Britain ceded West Florida in 1783, at the end of the American Revolutionary War), which region is today called the Florida Parishes.
In 1810, St. Francisville served as the capital of the Republic of West Florida, when the local planters ousted the Spanish government and set up their own independent republic for 74 days, before being annexed to the Territory of Orleans, as a possession of the United States.
COPYRIGHT DISCLOSURE NOTICE: THIS IS A COPYRIGHTED, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PROTECTED IMAGE.
Uploaded
January 8th, 2018
Statistics
Viewed 421 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/17/2024 at 12:53 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Comments
There are no comments for Country Manor. Click here to post the first comment.