Southeast from Church and Queen, Before the Civil by Deborah Reeves (2008)
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1½ inches thick (3.75 cm)
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
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Artist Deborah Reeves
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Description In this bird's eye view, there are only a few architectural differences between then and now--the near corner was a hotel, where now the building is part of St. Philip's Church, and has a piazza facing Queen Street. The French Huguenot Church stands in place, and we see out towards the docks which reached more to the south than they do now. The slave market is another street over, on Chalmers, but closer to the docks were others, such as on Vendue and Exchange St. It's a pretty town, but I put storm clouds gathering, and I wanted to show a hawk formed by those clouds like I saw one day--I wonder if you can see it too? The lady in black being shielded by her enslaved maid's umbrella is like a quote from an old Charleston author: 'She, a gaunt, colorless embodiment of family pride, walked down the street like a social barometer, rising and falling, stiffening and unbending, according the blueness of the blood of the persons she meets.'--William Gilmore Simms, 1852.
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