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Hotel Conway on the Black Water

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Artist

Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (1840-1896)

Collection

Yale University Art Gallery

Image Link

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/12520

Description

Medium: Brush and brown ink over graphite, heightened with white on tan paper

Image Licence

Public Domain

Image Credit

Image courtesy Yale University Art Gallery

Location

Black Water River, Virginia, USA

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Buildings & Architecture

TWW Comment

There are many places called 'Black Water' in the USA. "On" the Black Water, implies the name refers to a river. The Black Water River in Virginia seems a likely candidate as the artist made several trips into the fairly dangerous interiors of Virginia and the Carolinas in the 1870s.

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