Alexander Telfair
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| Type: | Color photographs | Paintings (visual works) |
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| Title: | Alexander Telfair |
| Date: | 1830 |
| Description: | Image of an oil portrait of Alexander Telfair (30 1/8 X 64 1/4 in., circa 1830). The Telfair family of Savannah, Georgia was one of the most prominent in Georgia during much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Alexander Telfair assumed control of his family's considerable plantation and business operations around 1818, following the deaths of his brothers, Josiah and Thomas Telfair. |
| Subjects: | Telfair, Alexander, 1789-1832--Portraits | Upper class--Georgia--Savannah | Men--Georgia--Savannah | Plantation owners--Georgia--Savannah | Telfair, Alexander, 1789-1832 | Savannah (Ga.) | Chatham County (Ga.) |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia | Telfair Museum of Art |
| Rights and Usage: | Courtesy of Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah. |
| Related Materials: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3148 | Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-8567 |
| Related Institutions: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) |
| Collection Information: | New Georgia Encyclopedia |