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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| The Interior of Beckwith's Studio | November 9, 1874 | 1935.85.2.42 | |
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Submission Illustration for the Central Park Competition: View from the Site of the Principal Entrance on Fifty-Ninth Street, Looking Northerly, New York City | 1857 | 1925.158 |
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Profile Portrait of an Unidentified Man | early 19th century | 1937.327 |
| Jungle Landscape with Three Figures Making a Fire | c. 1841 | 1950.417 | |
| Profile Portrait of Lawrence Mervil Tibbett (1896-1960) | 1931 | 1990.1.114 | |
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Sketch from a bound album | 1935.85.3.2 | |
| Dyckman House, New York City | 1917 | 1921.61 | |
| Powder Horn: Albert Cusick (I-12), with a Vignette Scene of a Tuscarora War Dance | 1889 | 1907.36.396 | |
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Black-throated Blue Warbler (Dendroica caerulescens), Havell plate no. 148 | 1829 | 1863.17.148 |
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Alexander Cumming McWhorter (c. 1762-1808) | c. 1800 | 1895.11 |
