LANDSCAPE OF NORTH CAROLINA OR VIRGINIA MIDDLING PLANTATION

While images of elite plantations are rare, early depictions of the small to middling plantations that more predominantly populated the antebellum South are even rarer.  This watercolor depicts such a plantation with a three-bay wide framed house with a single chimney and front porch, a log kitchen and slave quarter behind, and a variety of fences and agricultural outbuildings.  The drawing was found along the North Carolina-Virginia border.