Plymouth, N.C.

Artist Merrill Greene Wheelock American, 1822–1866

Date1863

MediumWatercolor on paper

Dimensions9 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (24.1 x 52.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina and from the American Legion Auxiliary (North Carolina Chapter)

Object number74.1.4

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Provenance**Created United States, 1863; collection of the artist. [The Old Print Shop, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1971.Published References"Recent Acquisitions." North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, nos. 1 and 2 (1975), listed 6, illus. (b-w) 8.

H.G. Jones, North Carolina Illustrated, 1524-1984 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. 242.

Roanoke Beacon Flyer, "3rd Annual Battle of Plymouth," (April 16-18,1993), illus. front cover.

Sheila Turnage, North Carolina (Oakland: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., 1998), illus. (color) 108-109.

Judkin Jay Browning, "'Little Souled Mercenaries'? The Buffaloes of Eastern North Carolina during the Civil War," The North Carolina Historical Review 77, No. 3 (July 2000), illus. (b-w) 345.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, Royal Villa, American Legion Auxiliary Convention, June 25, 1976.
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