Water Melon

Linked to Prints and Drawings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck, an eighteenth-century German artist, traveled to the Salzburger settlement of Ebenezer in 1736. There he documented the town, as well as the neighboring Yuchi Indians and local plant and animal life, in watercolor-and-pencil sketches.

Illustration by Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck

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