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A Representation of the New Church at Richmond Virginia.
Credit: the Virginia Historical Society
Created: Nineteenth century
Medium: Aquatint print

A Representation of the New Church at Richmond Virginia.

A nineteenth-century aquatint depicts a church designed by Robert Mills that was built on the site of the Richmond Theatre fire of 1811. The new church, which came to be known as Monumental Church, was completed in 1814.

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