Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Sketch of Nude Figure Holding a Scythe (The Personification of Death) | 1846-79 | Z.3387 |
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Montauk Point Lighthouse, Long Island, New York | c. 1820s | 1898.3 |
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Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber), Havell plate no. 397 | c. 1837 | 1863.17.397 |
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Seated and Holding the Fiddle of George de Forest Brush (1855-1941); verso: sketch of Sargent from the side, seated and holding Brush's fiddle | June 17, 1874 | 1935.85.2.32 |
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Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), Havell plate no. 387 | c. 1836-37 | 1863.17.387 |
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Studies of Two Bats and a Bat Head; verso diagrams of comparative measurements | 1841 | Z.3302 |
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Proposed Design for Smallpox Hospital, Blackwell's Island, East River, New York City | early 1850s | 1936.926 |
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Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus), Havell plate no. 56 | c. 1826 | 1863.17.56 |
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Half-length sketch of a woman | 1878-1883 | 1935.85.1.171 |
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Hudson River from Highwood Lawn, Weehawken Heights, New Jersey | 1857 | 1928.110 |
