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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Beckwith's Home "Morgan Park", Chicago, Illinois | 1878 | 1935.85.1.27 |
| Belvedere, Central Park, New York City | 1914 | Z.2016.10r | |
| Two Versions of a Design: Eagle Poised on a Globe and Eagle Poised on Globe with Banner in Beak | 1918.339 | ||
| Murray Street in 1822, New York City | 1925.163[dup] | ||
| North East Corner of Third Avenue and 86th Street, New York City, in 1867 | 1908 | Z.2016.4b | |
| Thomas Latimer: Silhouette | 1804 | Z.2564aa | |
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Sketch of a Seated, Draped Female Figure (Study for "Electricity") | 1890s | 1935.85.3.97 |
| Man Looking at an Advertisement for the Clipper Ship "Hibernia" | 1830-1859 | 1956.90 | |
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Uniforms of the American Revolution: Sergeant, 4th Company 1st Pennsylvania Battalion, 1775 | c. 1910 | 1921.105 |
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Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos), Havell plate no. 294 | 1832 | 1863.17.294 |
