Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Drawings
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view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| Study for an Illustration in "Kerry Kangaroo" | c. 1957 | 2000.880 | |
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"Arranging the lay figure" | 1878-1883 | 1935.85.1.177 |
| Design for a Schoolhouse | 1939.606 | ||
| Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn, New York; verso: sketch of female profile portrait in oval | 1870 | 1943.493L | |
| Bunker's Mansion House, Broadway, New York City: Study for Plate 5A of "Bourne's Views of New York" | c. 1831 | 1881.10 | |
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Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla), Havell plate no. 139 | 1829 | 1863.17.139 |
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Unidentified Man: Silhouette | c. 1828 | Z.2349 |
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Study of a Bat | 1841 | Z.3303 |
| Caricature of Hevlyn D. Benson (1879 -1948) | 1930-1939 | Z.3659 | |
| Crow (Child, Five Men, and a Woman) | 1866-68 | 1872.23.27 |
