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Samuel King
American, Newport, Rhode Island ca. 1748–1819 Newport, Rhode Island
1 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (4.4 x 3.1 cm)
medium: Watercolor on ivory
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 68.222.26 1968
Gift of J. William Middendorf II, 1968
Drone photographs of the Rhode island State House. Focused on the Independent Man that sits at the top of the dome.
Lonnie and I were in Rhode Island for his buddy Abigail Breslen's wedding. Actually, we were in Rhode Island, because the largest island in the state, although generally known as Aquidneck Island these days, is the eponym for the state as a whole, being the original Rhode. There are only three towns on the island: Newport in the south, Middletown in the middle (original, that), and Portsmouth in the north. We were in the middle, and thus in Middletown, and had been convoked to the Glen Manor House on the far eastern cliffs, overlooking the Sakonnet River (which is not a river, but rather a saltwater estuary of the Atlantic) and Fogland Beach on the mainland beyond. Rhode Island is lousy with mansions, the so-called "cottages" used in the summer by the New York elite fleeing the heat of the city.