The art of French prisoners of the postrevolution and Napoleonic wars
Servitude and Splendor: The craftsmen and carved furniture of the Rappahannock River valley, 1740 to 1780
May 2008 | By 1740 a colonial elite of well-to-do merchants and landowning planters had emerged in Virginia. With riches from tobacco production supplemented by investments in the profitable iron industry, they were fully prepared to engage artisans and to commission houses and furniture in the latest European styles that would express and solidify their economic status. This trend was …