Ruins of Jamestown

Accession number: 1990.147

The Ruins of Jamestown, Virginia, America by Alexandria-born artist John Gadsby Chapman, 1834. Although Jamestown declined for special reasons—the transfer of the capital to Willliamsburg—the ruins nonetheless seemed symptomatic of the general decline of Tidewater Virginia in the early 1800s.

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