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Tango01 | 13 Nov 2019 3:35 p.m. PST |
…wall of 17th c. home. "Restorers have discovered a battle scene believed to be from the French and Indian War drawn on the wall of a 17th-century home in East Hartford, Connecticut. A crew from the Glastonbury Restoration Company, a firm that specializes in restoring historic structures, was removing old plaster to reach the original wooden frame of the house when he uncovered a much older plaster wall covered with a mural five feet wide drawn in primitive style. It's a rudimentary drawing that is nonetheless incredibly active and detailed. In different colors of charcoal and chalk, it depicts a complex battle scene with soldiers in different colored uniforms, complete with winter coats and hats, cannon being moved on carts, Native Americans wielding bows and arrows and dead bodies with arrows protruding from them…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Berzerker73 | 13 Nov 2019 5:49 p.m. PST |
Great find thanks for sharing! |
randy51 | 13 Nov 2019 8:32 p.m. PST |
My first thought was "hey, they look like the crude drawings we used to do back 60 years ago". We used to cut up old paper grocery bags and draw battle scenes to entertain ourselves. |
Tango01 | 14 Nov 2019 12:29 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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42flanker | 18 Nov 2019 3:40 p.m. PST |
Surprisingly similar in composition to battle paintings executed by some Plains Indian artists in the 1870s and 80s as well as earlier 'winter counts' on buffalo hides. |
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