Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Savage State
Date:
ca. 1834
Object Number:
1858.1
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Steam Frigate "Fulton", Built 1819
Object Number:
1923.167
Date:
c. 1864
Medium:
Graphite and black ink beige paper laid on paper backed with canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 16 in. ( 25.4 x 40.6 cm )
Marks:
Inscribed: at bottom center: "The Steam Frigate Fulton built 1819 / Blown up 1829 at Brooklyn/ See the U.S. Engineer in Chief's Book published five or Six years since."
Inscribed: at lower left: "Built for Harbour defence. A double Boat with wheels in t
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "Built for Harbour defence / A double Boat with wheels / in the Center Carried / on deck to immense Pivot Guns equivalent / to the present Paxum Gun"; at lower center: "The Steam Frigate Fulton built 1819. / Blown up 1829 at Brooklyn."; at left lower edge: "See the U.S. Engineer in Chief, Book published five or six years since"; at lower right in graphite: illegible variant of same
Description:
Marine
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
