Keywords: View of Charles-Town.png en Charleston South Carolina Oil on canvas HOA 20 ¼ WOA 60 One of the most remarkable landscapes produced in the early South is of the port of Charleston painted in 1774 by Thomas Leitch or Leech Leitch advertised his plan to sell engraved copies of his Portrait of the Town so exact that every House in View will be distinctly shown The ship that dominates the view appropriately alludes to the trade with Great Britain that drove Charleston's economy In the foreground are three African American figures representing those whose labor produced the agricultural goods that made Charleston the wealthiest city in British North America at the time of the Revolution http //www mesda org/collections/paintings_sprite/mesda_charlestown_sprite html MESDA acc 2024 30 Thomas Leitch 1774 PD-old-100 PD-art Charleston South Carolina PD-old-100 |