New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Whittle Home

Artist Unknown

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1906

MediumPhotoengraving

DimensionsOverall: 11 x 8 3/8 in. (27.9 x 21.3 cm)

InscribedSome are marked "From Photo"

Credit LineGift of Mr. C. Wiley Grandy

Object number45.26.17

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DescriptionOne of 28 prints (photoengravings) of Norfolk scenes. Plates found c. 1925 in a box at National Bank of Commerce by Sam Mathew, and some plates made of them at that time. These scenes are printed in the center of sheets of thin paper. This particular print depicts the Whittle Home, built in 1791 and owned by Richard Tayler 1803, located on the southeast corner of Freemason and Duke.

Published ReferencesMost of these are from ART WORK OF NORFOLK, 189 (two copies in the Museum library).