Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| Tomb of Captain James Lawrence (1781-1813), Trinity Churchyard, New York City | 1872 | X.428 | |
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Study of Trees Along a Shoreline, Geneseo, New York | c. 1859 | 1918.242 |
| Powder Horn: George Wright (H-21), Two Sides Depicted | 1890 | 1907.36.370 | |
| The Brooklyn Bridge from the East River Looking North, New York | after 1886 | 1905.311 | |
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Mrs. A. Cornell: Silhouette | 1840 | Z.2523 |
| Illustration of United States Naval Vessel | 1904 | Z.3381 | |
| Powder Horn: The Goddess of the Chase (F-5), Two Sides Depicted | 1887 | 1907.36.409 | |
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Scenes from the American Revolution: Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown | c. 1910 | 1923.123 |
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Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura), Havell plate no. 17 | c. 1825 | 1863.17.17 |
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"Washington as President": Design for a Proposed Statuary Group, Washington Memorial Arch, New York City | c. 1890 | 1924.152 |
