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The Course of Empire: The Savage State
Date:
ca. 1834
Object Number:
1858.1
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)

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Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor), Havell plate no. 39
1822
Old Boiler Factory and Houses on Centre Street near Worth Street, New York City; verso: sketch of plan
1899
Moonlight Landscape with Building; from disassembled Cummings album
Greenshank (Tringa nebularia), Juvenile
c. 1554-1564
Bottle Hill Tavern, Madison, New Jersey
1936
paper cut-out of bow and quiver
Hudson River Steamboat "Clermont"
1861
Conrad-Alexandre Gerard, French Minister to the United States, Being Received by the Continental Congress, August 6, 1778
Seven Sketches of a Bullfight, Burgos, Spain
1880
Camp Fires at Night of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment and a Portion of the 7th Regiment of New York on the Road from Annapolis, Maryland, to Washington, D.C.
22-25 April 1861
Church of St. John the Evangelist, New York City, Framed by Laurel Branches
Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica)
Samuel Mather, M.D. (born c. 1741): Silhouette
1808
An Ojibbeway Robe (Facsimile)
1866-68
Brick House, 42nd. Street Near Second Avenue, New York City
1860
Sketchbook
1922
Northport, Long Island
1862
Production Layout for the Jacket of "Kerry Kangaroo"
c. 1957
Vechte-Cortelyou House, Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York; verso: sketches of foliage and buildings
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Profile Portrait of Madame Benda Simone (?)
1924
Park Scene with Horse and Carriage and Children
1940s
Freehold High School, New Jersey
1936
Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis harlani), Havell plate no. 86
c. 1829-30
Powder Horn: The Triangular Flask (F-36), Three Sides Depicted, with Relief Images of Diana, Minerva, and Mercury
1891
Paul Manship (1885-1966)
c. 1945

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