Watercolor tributes to Hopkins's early renderings of Sewanee's Domain

Item

Legacies Classification
Memorial Artwork
Memorial Type
Visual Work of Art
Memorial Context
Lost Cause
Memorialized Subject
Hopkins, John Henry
John Henry Hopkins Watercolors of the University of the South
Title
Watercolor tributes to Hopkins's early renderings of Sewanee's Domain
Background and Context
This series of watercolors, painted by a descendant of the Episcopal Bishop of Georgia, Stephen Elliot (1806-1866), is a tribute to John Henry Hopkins' 1859 watercolor renderings of Sewanee's Domain, which then encompassed an area of around 10,000 acres. The Rhett watercolors hang in the Hearth Room of the Sewanee Inn opposite the Hopkins originals.
Physical Description
five watercolor paintings, 12"x17.5"
Creator/Participating Person(s)
Nancy Ricker Rhett
Date created, installed or dedicated
2012
2014
Historical Period
2000-Present: Memorialization in the Era of Universities Studying Slavery and the Black Lives Matter Movement

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