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![]() | Seascape ca. 1865 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Marine Watercolor Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Old Ironsides 1863 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Burning Oil Well At Night, Near Rouseville, Pennsylvania ca. 1861 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Rouseville, Pennsylvania, lay within a few miles of Titusville and Pithole City, two of the most famous boomtowns in Pennsylvania s oil fields. From 1859 until after the Civil War, new gushers brought investors, cardsharps, saloons, and speculators into these rural settlements. As quickly as they grew, however, the towns collapsed, often from the... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Scene On The Hudson (Rip Van Winkle) 1845 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Hamilton's painting combines several scenes from Washington Irving's short story. The hazy river valley beyond the trees evokes the Catskills, where Rip Van Winkle looked out over the Hudson River "moving on its silent but majestic course." Beneath the cavernous rock, several men enjoy a game of ninepins while Rip drinks the brew that will make him... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Sunset At The Seacoast 1874 Bowdoin College Museum of Art Brunswick, ME | Unrated | Anonymous |
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