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![]() | Christmas Harbour, Kerguelens Land 1811 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]() The Kerguelen Islands, also known as the Desolation Islands, are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean constituting the emerged part of the otherwise submerged Kerguelen Plateau. The islands are a territory of France. There are no indigenous inhabitants, but France maintains a permanent presence of 50 to 100 scientists, engineers and... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | City Of Washington From Beyond The Navy Yard 1833 The White House Collection Washington, D.C. | ![]() In his City of Washington Cooke carefully rendered the architecture of the city as well as the contours of the riverbanks and the elevations of the hills | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Interior Of St. Peter's In Rome 1847 University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art Athens, GA | Unrated | Anonymous | |
Major Robert Cogdell Gilchrist before 1849 Gibbes Museum of Art Charleston, SC | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
![]() | Mrs. Robert Donaldson (Susan Jane Gaston) 1832 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Parson's Cause ca. 1834 Virginia Historical Society Richmond, VA | ![]() The "Parson's Cause" was an important legal and political dispute in the Colony of Virginia often viewed as an important event leading up to the American Revolution. Colonel John Henry, father of Patrick Henry, was the judge that presided over the court case that decided the issue, and the relatively unknown Patrick Henry advocated in favor of... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Portrait Of William R. King 1839 Philanthropic Society, Phi Hall, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC | ![]() William Rufus DeVane King (April 7, 1786 – April 18, 1853) was the 13th Vice President of the United States for about six weeks (1853), and earlier a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, Minister to France, and a Senator from Alabama. | Unrated | Anonymous |
Robert And Elizabeth Gilchrist 1836 Gibbes Museum of Art Charleston, SC | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
West Point From Above Washingron Valley 1834 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
William Cobbett circa 1831 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | ![]() This portrait is said to show Cobbett in the clothes he wore when tried for sedition in 1831. Considered a popular hero after his acquittal, Cobbett was elected to the reformed House of Commons, for the newly created borough of Oldham, in 1832. | Unrated | Anonymous |
- George Cooke