Runner: Williamsburg Palace 216

Table runner: Williamsburg Palace 216.: Cropped from image below. Images: PKM
Table runner: Williamsburg Palace 216.

Cropped from image below. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Runner: Williamsburg Palace 216

Description

A table runner with a silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting the Governor’s Palace and outbuildings at Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia. Buildings are presented in elevation, interspersed with trees, shrubs and topiary. This may have been a custom commission for the shops at Williamsburg. This table runner is listed in the January 1960 Country Prints price list in one colorway (soft brick, blue and green), and appears in the c.1960 brochure “Mat Sets by Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints”. It was also produced as a framed print; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints

Date made

circa 1959

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Location

Gill MA.

Continent

North America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“Governor’s Palace - North - and Outbuildings”, lower left corner, and “Colonial Williamsburg”, lower right corner, all in script. Unsigned by Wert or Country Prints.

Dimensions

Width

30 in

Depth

13 in

Material

Textile Ink, Bleached Linen