Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Study of the Roman Colosseum; verso: landscape sketch of the Roman Campagna with the Ponte Nomentano
Object Number:
1932.204
Date:
ca. 1792-96
Medium:
Brown ink over graphite on paper, lightly and tentatively squared for transfer in graphite; graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. ( 46 x 32.1 cm )
mat: 24 x 17 7/8 in. ( 61 x 45.4 cm )
Inscriptions:
Possibly inscribed at right below image in graphite (erased-very faint): "T H Hotchkiss[?]"
Description:
Architecture
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Provenance:
Estate of Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss; Asher B. Durand and Family; Lucy Durand Woodman, Orange, New Jersey
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
