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  • Colonial Williamsburg’s George Wythe House in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

    George Wythe House, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

    The Wythe House, located in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, is a historic house that was built in the 1750s and was home to George Wythe, father of American jurisprudence and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The property was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970. The house was originally owned by Richard Taliaferro, George Wythe’s father-in-law, and remained in his possession until Wythe’s marriage to Taliaferro’s daughter Elizabeth in 1755. The couple received the house as a wedding present and lived there until Elizabeth’s death in 1787.

    The Wythe House has had several subsequent owners, and its interior was restored to the form it would have been in during the time of the Wythe family in 1939, after it was acquired by Colonial Williamsburg. The house has a symmetrical façade constructed of red brick with white woodwork that is perfectly proportioned. The house has a hip roof with brick chimneys, with the roof supported by a modillion cornice. The lighter-colored bricks framing the doors and windows are called rubbed bricks, and the walls are laid in Flemish bond.

    Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and a private foundation dedicated to preserving the historic district of Williamsburg, Virginia. The foundation employs 7,300 people on-site and globally and operates 37 companies. The historic district covers 301 acres and includes hundreds of restored or re-created buildings from the 18th century, as well as 17th-century, 19th-century, and Colonial Revival structures.

    The restoration and re-creation of colonial Williamsburg was championed in the late 1920s as a way to celebrate rebel patriots and early American history. Proponents included the Reverend Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (now called Preservation Virginia), the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Rockefellers. Colonial Williamsburg is part of the Historic Triangle of Virginia along with Jamestown and Yorktown and the Colonial Parkway.

    Williamsburg is an independent city in Virginia, with a population of 15,425 as of the 2020 U.S. Census. The city was founded in 1632 as Middle Plantation, a fortified settlement on high ground between the James and York rivers. Williamsburg functioned as the capital of the Colony and Commonwealth of Virginia from 1699 to 1780 and became the center of political events in Virginia leading to the American Revolution. The College of William & Mary, established in 1693, is located in Williamsburg and is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The city’s economy is driven by tourism to Colonial Williamsburg, and it is also a college town.

    The author of this content embarked on a cycling tour of historic architecture in the fall of 2022, beginning in Montreal, Canada, and finishing in Savannah, Georgia. Over the course of 2.5 months, the author cycled 7,126 km and took over 68,000 photos. The tour included visits to the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original U.S. states. To support the author’s photography, readers are encouraged to become a patron on Patreon or donate.

    Posted by Billy Wilson Photography on 2023-03-11 22:40:33

  • “Parisian Hôtel de Tessé’s Grand Salon on Display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York, United States”

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection boasts over two million works of art, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The museum’s main building, covering a wide area in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is one of the world’s largest art museums. In addition to the Fifth Avenue location, there is a smaller second location called The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan. The Cloisters houses an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe. The museum was founded in 1870 with the goal of bringing art and art education to the American people. Its permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. It also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art, and has encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.

    The Comtesse de Tessé (1713–1783) and her son René Mans de Froulay (1736–1814) acquired in ruins a residence at 1, quai Voltaire. Following a disastrous fire, the residence was rebuilt between 1765 and 1768, and a new mansion was constructed which is still standing today on the left bank of the Seine, near the Pont du Carrousel. The interior decoration of the rebuilt mansion was completed around April of 1772. The paneling with its refined carving in the Neoclassical style in the largest of the formal reception rooms in the mansion was the work of woodworker Nicolas Huyot, a maître menuisier, about whom little is known. The carving was done by the sculptor Pierre Fixon or his son Louis-Pierre, or perhaps the two in collaboration. The Fixons may have also created the plaster overdoor reliefs representative of the four seasons. The marble sculptor Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Le Franc, who had worked with Louis Le Tellier (ca. 1700–1785) on various other projects, was responsible for the blue turquin marble mantelpiece, which is original to the room.

    The paneling in the reception room was curated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and acquired by the museum. The room was beautifully decorated with coffered triumphal arches executed in perspective, that framed the four mirrors and were crowned by laurel branches and floral wreaths. The Comtesse de Tessé called this room the Salle du Dais (Canopy Room) after the large tester or canopy that must have been mounted on the opposite wall to the windows. Underneath this crimson damask tent, which was enriched with gold-embroidered appliqués of the Tessé family coat of arms, the Comtesse or her son likely received their guests. The room was furnished with twenty-nine chairs all covered with different crimson fabrics, a small veneered bookcase, and a gilt-bronze cartel clock with movement by Voisin. Several family portraits and two tapestries of landscape scenes were hung on the side walls. The 1783 inventory of the hôtel did not list any curtains in the room, perhaps because none were hung in order not to obscure the lovely view from the three large windows of the Seine and the Louvre and Tuileries palaces across the water. 

    Posted by Billy Wilson Photography on 2023-01-16 19:50:52

  • “Dining Room with Wisteria, Paris” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, NY, USA

    The content describes a finely crafted dining room that dates back to the early 20th century. The room was designed and overseen by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, a French ceramist and artist, and each element of the room was crafted by a highly skilled maker, from the woodwork and furniture to the embossed leather chairs and woven wool carpet. The overall theme of the room is wisteria, represented by the purple amaranth wood inlays on the walnut veneer, and the room exudes a sense of welcome and elegance. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City holds this dining room in its permanent collection, which comprises over two million works across 17 curatorial departments. The Met is the largest art museum in the Americas and includes encyclopedic collections of art from classical antiquity, ancient Egypt, European masters, American and modern art, African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art, musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. The museum also houses several notable interiors. The Met was founded in 1870 with the mission of bringing art and art education to the American people and is located on Fifth Avenue on the eastern edge of Central Park. It attracts millions of visitors each year and is a significant cultural institution that contributes to the city’s reputation as a global cultural, financial, and media center. The content also briefly mentions the photographer’s cycling tour through historic architecture and promotes their photography on Instagram, Patreon, and donations.

    Posted by Billy Wilson Photography on 2023-01-16 02:09:19

  • Rewritten: “The Boy With the Trophy”

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    Posted by Trophy Club on 2011-07-08 00:20:03

  • “Grand Salon from Hôtel de Tessé, Paris” Selfie at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York, United States

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    This content describes the history and decoration of a salon in a Paris mansion built between 1765 and 1768. The mansion was rebuilt after a fire at the request of the widowed Marie-Charlotte de Béthune-Charost and her son René Mans de Froulay. The paneling in the room was carved in the Neoclassical style by woodworker Nicolas Huyot, and the marble sculptor Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Le Franc created the blue turquin marble mantelpiece. The room was also adorned with plaster overdoor reliefs representing the four seasons and coffered triumphal arches executed in perspective that framed the mirrors. The 1783 inventory of the hôtel detailed that this room was called the Salle du Dais and furnished with chairs, a small bookcase, and a gilt-bronze cartel clock with movement by Voisin. The room was decorated with family portraits and two tapestries of landscape scenes hung on the side walls, and the large tester/canopy with the family coat of arms provided a lovely view of the Seine and the Louvre and Tuileries palaces.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City houses a vast collection of over two million works, including classical antiquity and ancient Egyptian art, European paintings and sculptures, American and modern art, African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine, and Islamic art, as well as musical instruments, costumes and accessories, antique weapons and armor, and notable interiors ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design. The museum was founded in 1870 to bring art and art education to the American people, and its permanent collection is divided among 17 curatorial departments. The Fifth Avenue building opened in 1880, and despite the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, the museum ranked fourth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world with 1,958,000 visitors. New York City is the most populous city in the United States with a population of over 8.8 million, and it is the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, with over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020. It is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on various aspects of society.

    Posted by Billy Wilson Photography on 2023-01-16 19:50:52