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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Pages
view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| The President's Mansion, Philadelphia, in 1790-97 | 1936.1004 | ||
| Studies of Cows; verso: studies of same | 1918.223 | ||
| Captain William Wilson | 1798 | 1912.20 | |
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Sketch of female nude, seen from behind | 1878-1883 | 1935.85.1.169 |
| Study of Trees Along Shoreline, Mother Bunch Islands, Lake George New York | 1873 | 1918.209 | |
| The Battle of Lexington | 1916 | 1955.297 | |
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American Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) and Blackish Oystercatcher?, Havell plate no. 427 | 1838 | 1863.17.427 |
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Design for a Window in a Private Mausoleum (Flowering Tree in Landscape with Water and Mountains) | 1900-20 | N84.142 |
| Thomas Pritchard Rossiter (1818-1871) | 1840 | 1956.71 | |
| Fraktur: Certificate of the Birth of Sally H. Annis with Stylized Bird Motifs | 1799 | 1937.1817 |
