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"Mystery at Drayton Hall: Hunt for a Watercolor" - New York Times article
7/1/2010 - 8/31/2010
Email: kristine_morris@draytonhall.org
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/arts/design/16antiques.html
Email: kristine_morris@draytonhall.org
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/arts/design/16antiques.html
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| The Mystery Watercolor, dated 1765 |
"Employees at Drayton Hall, a 1740s plantation turned museum in Charleston, S.C., opened the mail one day to find a photograph of a watercolor they had never seen. It showed their own Palladian brick building, surrounded by low colonnades they did not recognize. The image, dated 1765 on the back, came with no cover letter or even a return address..."
Click on the link above to read the entire article by New York Times journalist Eve Kahn.
