Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Drawings
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view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| Church Window (Caudebec, France?) | August 30, 1876 | 1935.85.2.206 | |
| Long Island, New York | 1877 | 1955.126 | |
| Powder Horn: The Ely (R-42), with Carving Unfurled | 1888? | 1907.36.223 | |
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Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus), Havell plate no. 191 | 1833 | 1863.17.191 |
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Oval Vignette View of Kaaterskill Falls, Catskill Mountains, New York | c. 1853 | 1975.37 |
| Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album | 1979.13c | ||
| Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) | c. 1554-1564 | 1889.10.3.6 | |
| De Rham Estate, Norton's Cove, Hudson River, New York, New York | 1833 | X.453 | |
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View of the East River with the Manhattan Bridge, New York City | 1940 | INV.14847 |
| Collection of 7 prints | INV.14703 |
