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Copperplate depicting colonial-era Williamsburg, Virginia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bodleian Plate is an copperplate depicting several colonial buildings of eighteenth-century Williamsburg, Virginia, as well as several types of native flora, fauna, and American Indians. Used in John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg, the plate has been tied to Williamsburg resident William Byrd II and may have been produced by English illustrator Eleazar Albin and engraver John Carwitham.[1]