Product Description
The Bassett Hall Framed Print by local artist Marcia Long features a beautiful view of the Rockefellers' home. This watercolor print features the home itself, surrounded by inviting trees and shrubs. Makes a wonderful keepsake from your trip to Colonial Williamsburg and a thoughtful gift for a friend. Professionally framed with an authentication label from the artist on the back. Arrives ready for hanging. (Hanging hardware not included.)
Features
- Measures 11 1/4"W x 9 1/4"H
- Detailed gold frame
- Giclée print fine art prints on archival paper
- Archival matte board and glass cover
- Signed by local Williamsburg artist Marcia Long
- Made in USA
About the Artist
Marcia Long is a local Williamsburg artist. She holds an art degree from the Ohio State University and received botanical art training at the New York Botanical Garden, the Brookside Botanical Garden in Maryland, the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh, the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida and has attended master classes in St. Michael Maryland, Filoli Gardens in Woodside, California and Falls Church, Virginia.
Inspiration
Bassett Hall owes its name to Burwell Bassett, a nephew of Martha Washington who bought the property about 1800 and owned it for nearly 40 years. Bassett served as a congressman, a state senator, and a delegate.
Bassett Hall, a two-story, 18th-century frame house located on 585 acres of gardens and rolling woodlands, is a part of the story of the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. It was in this house that John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, made their home during the early stages of the restoration of the Historic Area, a restoration they themselves financed.
Today, the house looks much as it did in the 1930s and 40s, when the Rockefellers restored and furnished it as a comfortable family home. Bassett Hall reflects both its 18th-century heritage and the neighborly comfort that was part of the Rockefellers' 20th-century life in Williamsburg. Learn more about Bassett Hall and take a tour.
