Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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World Trade Center Construction Site Viewed from the 22nd Floor of 30 Church Street Looking West | c. 1970 | 2012.26.45 |
| Sloop Mirth II | 1909 | 1948.520 | |
| Erie Canal, near Little Falls, New York | 1831 | 1962.18 | |
| Flathead (Two Children, Man, Two Women, Infant with Background Hut) | 1866-68 | 1872.23.92 | |
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Eared Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis), Havell plate no. 404 | c. 1838 | 1863.17.404 |
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Locomotive "DeWitt Clinton" Engine at the Bloodgood Farm, New York in 1832 | 1884 | 1975.4 |
| Allegory of Poetry, Painting, Printing and Exhibition; verso: Figure Sketches; from disassembled Cummings album | 1979.30 | ||
| Old Swedes Church [Holy Trinity Church], Wilmington, Delaware | 1844 | Z.3432 | |
| Landscape of Roman Campagna with Ruins, Italy | 1860-69 | 1932.220 | |
| Union County Courthouse from Columbia High School, South Orange, New Jersey; verso: sketch of same view | 1936 | 1981.145 |
