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1746
"The Thames at Westminster Bridge with Barges"
by Samuel Scott, 1746
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Artwork [60K JPG]
English artist Samuel
Scott's oil on canvas shows a view of the Thames River relatively
contemporary to that which Edward Corder Sr. would have seen at
the start of his voyage to the colonies.
Relevant to: Edward
Corder I
1748-1749 Artist's
conceptions of George Washington and his Survey Crew
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Artwork [508K JPG] "George
Washington, Surveyor”
Henry Hintermeister, 1960
Here we see young Washington in a swaggering pose atop a mountain
bluff, surrounded by natives, with the winding curves of the Shenandoah
snaking away into the distance. This is probably the most realistic
portrayal of Washington's youth in 1749. The "Davy Crockett"
character taking notes in the background is probably a fair representation
of the role of John Lonem as survey assistant.
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Artwork [260K JPG] “Young
Washington, Surveyor”
Artist unknown.
A chromolithograph printed
in 1898 shows a staunchly upright-looking Washington in a smart
red coat, followed by hunting hounds and, at a deferential distance,
an assistant and slave.
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“The Young Surveyor, 1748”
Walter Haskell Hinton, 1972
This scene depitcts Washington looking not so young, but
very hale and hearty. Notice the chain in the assistant's hand,
which would make him...a chainman! Like our Edward! This is probably
the best known and most skillfully executed illustration of the
subject and is displayed in the Visitor's Center at Mount Vernon.
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Artwork [300K JPG] "George
Washington as a Surveyor, 1749"
Joseph Boggs Beale, (1841-1926)
Elegantly cloaked and utterly unperturbed, a ruddy-cheeked
Washington mildly observes his chainman struggling with a pole.
Relevant
to: Edward
Corder I and/or Edward Corder II
Related resources:
Historical
Marker at Little Washington (photo)
1748-1834
Artist's renderings and photos of the Manor of Greenway Court
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Artwork [376K JPG] "Greenway Court"
Artist unknown
Undated engraving shows Hunting Lodge/Manor surrounded by tall
trees and a single outbuilding visible on the right.
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Artwork [224K JPG] "Lord Fairfax's Smokehouse"
Photographer/Artist
unknown
Undated postcard from early
20th century appears to be a tinted photograph showing the then-standing
smokehouse. These cards are frequently available on eBay.
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Artwork [236K JPG] "Greenway Court Chapel"
Photographer/Artist
unknown
Undated postcard from early
20th century appears to be a tinted photograph showing the Greenway
Court Chapel near Millwood. These cards are frequently available
on eBay.
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Artwork [92K JPG] "Greenway Court"
Artist unknown
Undated engraving from Virginia Historical Society depicts a visitor
arriving, being greeted presumably by one of Fairfax's hunting
dogs.
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Artwork [332K JPG] "Greenway Court, Seat of Lord Fairfax"
1846
Artist unknown
Probably the least appealing of the renderings, this engraving
makes the Court look rather like a dairy barn, yet it appears
to be technically correct from written descriptions.
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Artwork [224K JPG] "Greenway Court"
1857
Artist unknown; from
Putnam's Monthly, June 1857
The most romantic of the illustrations shows the Hunting Lodge/Manor
set on a hillside beneath "tall locusts waving their broad
boughs", while Indians camp peaceably in the foreground and
farm animals frolic in the meadow between. Includes a not-so-flattering
reference to Lord Fairfax, dismissing his influence on his proprietary
lands and tenants.
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Artwork [216K JPG] "Greenway Court" 1894
Artist unknown; from
Some Old Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland
A pen and ink of the Hunting Lodge/Manor from the 1894 publication
Some Old Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, the full
text of which can be read
here. Again, we see tee-pees pitched in front of the house,
so I suspect that the artist used the 1857 work as reference.
This version includes representative outbuildings.
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Artwork [216K JPG] "The Old Guide Post to Greenway Court"
1905
Photographer/Artist
unknown
Postcard shows crossroads marker pointing to former location of
Greenway Court. A similar marker is still standing today in the
village of White Post (2007).
Relevant to: Edward
Corder I and children
Related
resources:
Some Old Historic
Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland (article), Greenway
Court's 1966 Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places
(PDF)
1748-1781 ca Artist's renderings of Thomas,
Lord Fairfax
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Artwork [132K JPG] "Thomas,
Sixth Lord Fairfax"
Portrait of Thomas,
Sixth Lord Fairfax, probably painted around 1760. Born in 1693
to Thomas, Fifth Lord Fairfax and his wife, Catherine Culpeper,
the Sixth Lord Fairfax was through his mother heir to the Northern
Neck of Virginia. In the summer of 1747, at the age of fifty-four,
he arrived to make his permanent residence in Virginia. He was
the only peer of the realm to do so. Edward Corder Sr. was a tenant
of His Lordship at the Manor of Greenway Court on a parcel of
the plantation known as The Turkey Tract.
View
Artwork [96K JPG] "The Cabin
of Lord Fairfax"
Artist unknown
Undated illustration shows a man (presumably Lord Fairfax) reclining
before his fire, surrounded by hunting dogs. I have dated the
illustration here in the library circa 1748, the time of its intended
setting rather than to the unknown date of its execution.
Relevant to: Edward
Corder I and family
Related
resources: An
Inventory of the Estate of the Right Honorable Thomas, Lord Fairfax
(transcription)
1750
ca "The Thames Wharf"
by Samuel Scott, ca 1750's
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[96K JPG]
English artist Samuel
Scott's oil on canvas illustrates a typical scene at Thames Wharf
in the 18th century. This is probably similar to the environment
in which Edward Corder Sr. was loaded onto Darby Lux's Gilbert,
a ship carrying indentured servants and convicts
from London to Annapolis.
Relevant to: Edward
Corder I
1750-1751
ca "Gin Lane"
by William Hogarth, ca 1750-51
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English artist William
Hogarth's bawdy rendition of life in mid-18th century London slums.
Although Edward Corder Sr. had been in the colonies for nearly
thirty years by the time Hogarth produced this well-known work,
I imagine things had not much changed for the worse since Edward's
1721 arrest. Transportation might not have been such a bad
thing after all...
Relevant to: Edward
Corder I
This collection is intended for educational
use by genealogical researchers of the Corder family and allied
lines. Please do not copy or distribute these resources, or use
them for commercial purposes or in publications of any kind without
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