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Consider the Sources: The Reid House Overmantel Painting, Revisited


  • The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Williamsburg, VA USA (map)

Explore with us the only known painted overmantel from an original historic area building. From the Reid house here at Colonial Williamsburg, the painting was originally incorporated over a fireplace mantel. This program will focus on the story of the how the painting was made, and necessary care for its exhibition. Using analytical tools, Shelley Svoboda, Senior Conservator of Paintings, and her colleagues, will share their in-depth examination of this special painting HERE.

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