{"id":642,"date":"2013-02-03T18:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2013-02-03T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:29:52","slug":"a-possible-boat-wagin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"A Possible Boat Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_643\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/watson_wagon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-643\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-643 \" alt=\"Detail from Plate 85, possibly a boat wagon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/watson_wagon-300x85.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/watson_wagon-300x85.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/watson_wagon-150x42.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/watson_wagon-1024x292.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/watson_wagon-100x28.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from Plate 85, possibly a boat wagon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I recently read <em>Captain Watson&#8217;s Travels in America: The Sketchbook and Diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1771-1818<\/em> by Kathleen A. Foster (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8122-3384-0. This is a delightful book the focuses on some sketchbooks of watercolors done by a British naval captain while visiting the United States. Plate 85 in this book shows a watercolor entitled &#8220;Looking down the Susquehannah fm Wrightsville ferry 25th April 1817&#8221;. On the right side, next to an inn, is a wagon which could be a boat wagon. Then again, it could have some other purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read Captain Watson&#8217;s Travels in America: The Sketchbook and Diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1771-1818 by Kathleen A. Foster (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8122-3384-0. This is a delightful book the focuses on some sketchbooks of watercolors done by a British naval captain while visiting the United States. Plate 85 in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13","category-wagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}