Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| Ivan Tauss (1890-1963) | 1947 | 2001.26 | |
| A Male Nude (After a Statue?), Seen From Behind | c. 1876 | 1935.85.2.232 | |
| Street scene with two figures under umbrella | c. 1870-1880 | 1935.85.2.8 | |
| Moonlit Pool with Heron | before 1857 | 1947.561 | |
| The Great Fire in Savannah, Georgia, January 27, 1865 | 27 January 1865 | 1945.580.32 | |
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Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica), Havell plate no. 346 | c. 1834 | 1863.17.346 |
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Nancy Stoddard: Silhouette | 1793 | Z.2418 |
| Say's Least Shrew (Cryptotis parva), Study for Plate no. 70 of "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America"; verso: comparative diagram | 1842 | Z.3297 | |
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Cliff-159; verso: Paz 2 and a sketch of a crown | ca. 1970s | 2012.20.3 |
| Still Life with Grapes, Pitcher, and Spoon; verso: study of another still life | INV.14841 |
