11 x 14
Oil on Linen Board
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Court Street runs perpendicular to King St in Edenton, NC as it leads right into Edenton Bay on the Albemarle Sound - a beautiful view of the Washington and Bertie County shoreline a few miles Southwest. Last Sunday was one of a very few pretty days this Winter, so I ventured over to Edenton to paint and get some pictures for studio work. When I drove down King St and looked down Court, I knew this was too good to pass up.
The waterfront of Edenton is lined with beautiful antebellum homes that were spared hardly any damage if any at all during the early Civil War when General Ambrose Burnside's Expedition Fleet sailed into Edenton Bay - which is the background of this painting. After the battles of Roanoke Island and Elizabeth City, the regional Confederate ragtag Navy, consisting of local converted fishing vessels known as the Mosquito Fleet, had all but been decimated and the Union occupiers were able to take Edenton without any casualties or blood loss. Most of these homes look as they did back then retaining their historical presence in a Southern picturesque town.
