Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Sketch from a bound album | 1877-98 | 1935.85.3.1-155 |
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Powder Horn: Martin Humphrey (R-10), Two Sides Depcited, with a Vignette of the Putnam's Tavern Sign | 1892 | 1907.36.194 |
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Bat; profile sketch of head | c. 1841 | Z.3308 |
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Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York | 1836-37 | 1952.410 |
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Panoramic View of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York | c. 1880 | X.510 |
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Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) | 1820 | 1863.18.22 |
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Two Women Carrying Baskets, Sorrento, Italy | 1878-1883 | 1935.85.1.7 |
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Joseph Young, M.D. (c. 1733-1814) | c. 1795 | 1921.19 |
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Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), Havell plate no. 181 | 1833 | 1863.17.181 |
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Robert Fulton (1765-1815) | 1798 | 1976.56 |
