Boarding at the Packet Office (Art Print), Richmond VA,Joseph E. Burrough, III

JOSEPH BURROUGH

"Boarding at the Packet Office"
Image Size: 15" X 20" Standard Print: $65 (Edition Size: 900)
Remarqued Artist Proof: $175 (Edition Size: 75)
Available Original Oil on Canvas: $2,500 16" X 20"

In the last century, the Packet Office, located in downtown Richmond, Virginia was the origin of much commercial traffic on the James River and Kanawha Canal. It stood at the corner of Eighth Street and the Canal where the Virginia Power headquarters stands today. It was situated in the heart of Richmond’s commercial district of tobacco warehouses, flour mills and foundries when Richmond was the vital link between the canal transportation above her and the navigable James River below. Raw materials, coal, wood and agricultural produce would be transported down the James River and Kanawha Canal into Richmond where they would be processed or milled, packaged and then loaded onto sailing vessels at Dock Street and shipped down the James and out to sea on tall-masted ships.

As depicted in this painting, the viewer is sitting atop a canal boat near Eighth and Canal looking west up Canal Street in the distance watching passengers as they board a packet (passenger) boat for the 5 p.m. departure to Lynchburg. After poling under the Seventh Street bridge on the upper left, the packet will be hitched to a pair of horses to begin its journey on the Kanawha Canal as it parallels the beautiful James River winding through scenic Virginia countryside along Goochland, Maidens, Scottsville, Howardsville and Wingina on its 146 mile voyage to Lynch-burg and beyond. The trip came complete with delicious southern cooking, great conversation, overnight accomodations and splendid views from the upper deck. It was an era when time was in great supply and life moved as slow as the trot of a packet horse on the towpath of the Kanawha Canal.

	JOSEPH BURROUGH

			© Copyright 1997, Joseph E. Burrough, III Fine Art
		"Boarding at the Packet Office" Image Size: 15" X 20" Standard Print: $65 (Edition Size: 900) Remarqued Artist Proof: $175 (Edition Size: 75) Available Original Oil on Canvas: $2,500 16" X 20"
In the last century, the Packet Office, located in downtown Richmond, Virginia was the origin of much commercial traffic on the James River and Kanawha Canal. It stood at the corner of Eighth Street and the Canal where the Virginia Power headquarters stands today. It was situated in the heart of Richmond’s commercial district of tobacco warehouses, flour mills and foundries when Richmond was the vital link between the canal transportation above her and the navigable James River below. Raw materials, coal, wood and agricultural produce would be transported down the James River and Kanawha Canal into Richmond where they would be processed or milled, packaged and then loaded onto sailing vessels at Dock Street and shipped down the James and out to sea on tall-masted ships. As depicted in this painting, the viewer is sitting atop a canal boat near Eighth and Canal looking west up Canal Street in the distance watching passengers as they board a packet (passenger) boat for the 5 p.m. departure to Lynchburg. After poling under the Seventh Street bridge on the upper left, the packet will be hitched to a pair of horses to begin its journey on the Kanawha Canal as it parallels the beautiful James River winding through scenic Virginia countryside along Goochland, Maidens, Scottsville, Howardsville and Wingina on its 146 mile voyage to Lynch-burg and beyond. The trip came complete with delicious southern cooking, great conversation, overnight accomodations and splendid views from the upper deck. It was an era when time was in great supply and life moved as slow as the trot of a packet horse on the towpath of the Kanawha Canal.