"French Colonial Mobile, Est. 1702"
$250.00
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"French Colonial Mobile, Est. 1702"
$250.00
Acrylic Painting on Maple Wood.
16" x 33"
7 lbs.
The predominantly blue abstract background represents the royal banner of France during the 72-year reign of Louis XIV, the French "Sun King" monarch in power during the early years of Mobile, years in which French explorers founded Mobile at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff in 1702, and re-established the city in 1711 at its current site. Louis XIV died in 1715.
A few years later, in 1718, Mobile founder Jean-Baptiste LeMoyne de Bienville founded New Orleans on the east bank of the Mississippi River. The gold fleur de lis represents the full era of French rule in Mobile (1702 - 1763)