- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Alexander Telfair
- Date of Original:
- 1830
- Subject:
- Upper class--Georgia--Savannah
Men--Georgia--Savannah
Plantation owners--Georgia--Savannah
Telfair, Alexander, 1789-1832--Portraits
Telfair, Alexander, 1789-1832 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- paintings (visual works)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This oil portrait of Alexander Telfair (30 1/8" x 64 1/4") was made around 1830. Telfair assumed control of his family's considerable plantation and business operations around 1818, following the deaths of his brothers, Josiah and Thomas Telfair.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/telfair-family/m-8567/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah
Telfair Museums - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/telfair-family
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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