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拍品专文
Laughlin describes his composition as: Windsor Plantation, near Port Gibson, Miss., was nearly burned during the course of the Civil War, but survived only to be destroyed by a fire of unknown origin in the 1890's. Here, the clouds hang like a question mark over the mystery of the ruins, whose tremendous plastered brick columns are crowned by huge cast-iron capitals. From the cores of the brick columns young trees sprout, the whole structure suggesting an incredible upsurge of Classical civilization, somehow completely lost in time and space.