Re: Inger's Newport Tower painting

David Johnson <trolleyfan_spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:

"bogart.lloy@xxxxxxxxx" <bogart.lloy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Doug Weller wrote:
Inger has in the past claimed to have seen a painting of the Newport
Tower that was painted before Newport was founded. I have before
said I thought it was one of these but I don't think she has ever
commented: http://lithic.50g.com/ri.htm
http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/tower/frame2.htm

Doug
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Gosh, Doug, do you really think there's a mystery here? ;-)

That Redwood URL contains, in one caption, the following:

..."the Tower is, in fact, on a hill that, before Newport was
built up in colonial times, overlooked fields and the waters
of Narragansett Bay."

The phrase "before Newport was built up" clearly refers to the
HILL. But for a grammatically-challenged person who sees only
what she's looking for, it could only mean that the tower was
present, and, therefore, the picture was painted "before Newport
was founded". (Not the wackiest misinterpretation we've seen.)

I think we should hunt down the person who wrote that caption,
and beat a clarification out of him.

It also doesn't help that the site's only description of the
painting's date is "old" - though from the style, I wouldn't put it
before 1750 or so

No, maybe even (early) 19th century.

- so I'm not sure what it could possibly prove
about possible pre- Colonial construction...

It proves the tower was there before the painter left.


...oh, right. Nothing. "Inger said it, therefore it's wrong", I almost
forgot.

David


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