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Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
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Introduction Origins of the Pastoral The Pursuit of Gentility Decline and Resistance Resurgence of the Old Order Triumph of the Colonial Past Exhibit Catalog Acknowledgements Comments 		The Victory Ball, 1781  

The Victory Ball, 1781
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris c. 1929
Oil on canvas
Virginia Historical Society, Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art
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Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal

Acknowledgements

Generous financial support for the exhibition and its catalog has been provided by:

The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

The Windsor Foundation

Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Changing Exhibitions Fund


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Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
Text adapted from the book Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal, written by William M. S. Rasmussen, Lora M. Robins Curator of Art, Virginia Historical Society, and Robert S. Tilton, Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

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Introduction
I. Origins of the Pastoral
II. Pursuit of Gentility
III. Decline and Resistance
IV. Resurgence of the Old Order
V. Triumph of the Colonial Past
Exhibit Catalog
Acknowledgements
Comments

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