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  | Artist | Notes |
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 | Valley Pasture by Robert Scott Duncanson 1857 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Duncanson, Robert Scott |  rms. This might represent the promised land of freedom that escaped slaves in the 1850s hoped to reach by swimming across the Ohio River to the free states of the North. |
 | Valparaiso Harbor by James McNeill Whistler 1866 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Whistler, James McNeill | |
 | Vega by Arthur Bowen Davies ca. 1920s Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Davies, Arthur Bowen | |
 | Venice from the Tower of San Giorgio by Thomas Moran 1900 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | |
 | Venus Guiding Eneas And The Trojans To The Latin Shore by William Page 1862 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Page, William | |
 | Vesuvius and Pompeii by Robert Scott Duncanson 1870 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Duncanson, Robert Scott | Robert S. Duncanson spent a significant amount of time in Italy, and painted several views of Pompeii. Pompeii's dramatic history and the lure of Mount Vesuvius's still violent potential brought many artists to the area in the nineteenth century. This image shows the remains of an amphitheater, with Vesuvius smoking in the background. Duncanson... |
 | View near Rome by George Loring Brown 1854 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Brown, George Loring | |
 | View Of Provincetown by Henry Farrer 1892 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Farrer, Henry | |
 | View Of The Hudson by Frances Flora Palmer ca. 1865 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Palmer, Frances Flora | |
 | View of the Temple of Peace in the Roman Forum by George Loring Brown 1864 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Brown, George Loring |
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