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| William Hunter, Child in Womb, drawing from dissection of a woman who died in the ninth month of pregnancy, from Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, 1774. |
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| Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery (in which a lamp is put in place of the sun), ca. 1763–1765. Oil on canvas, 4'10" x 6'8". Derby Museums and Art Gallery, Derby, England. |
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| Abraham Darby III and Thomas F. Pritchard, iron bridge at Coalbrookdale, England (first cast-iron bridge over the Severn River), 1776–1779. 100' span. |
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| Antonio Canaletto, Basin of San Marco from San Giorgio Maggiore, ca. 1740. Oil on canvas. Wallace Collection, London. |
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| Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Village Bride, 1761. Oil on canvas, 3' x 3' 101/2". Louvre, Paris. |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Grace at Table, 1740. Oil on canvas, 1' 7" x 1' 3". Louvre, Paris |
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| Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Self-Portrait, 1790. Oil on canvas, 8' 4" x 6' 9". Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| William Hogarth, Breakfast Scene, from Marriage à la Mode, ca. 1745. Oil on canvas, approx. 2' 4" x 3'. Reproduced by courtesy of the trustees of the National Gallery, London. |
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| Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ca. 1785. Oil on canvas, approx. 7' 2" x 5'. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Andrew W. Mellon Collection). |
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| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Heathfield, 1787. Oil on canvas, approx. 4' 8" x 3' 9". Reproduced by courtesy of the trustees of the National Gallery, London. |
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| Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1771. Oil on canvas, approx. 5' x 7'. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (gift of the Duke of Westminster, 1918). |
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| John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Paul Revere, ca. 1768-1770. Oil on canvas, 2' 11" x 2' 41/2". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (gift of Joseph W., William B., and Edward H. R. Revere). |
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| Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures, or Mother of the Gracchi, ca. 1785. Oil on canvas, 3' 4" x 4' 2". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (the A. D. and W. C. Williams Fund |
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| Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Oil on canvas, approx. 11' x 14'. Louvre, Paris. |
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| Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Tennis Court, 1791. Graphite, ink, sepia, heightened with white on paper, 65 cm x 105 cm. Musée national du Château de Versailles, France |
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| Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793. Oil on canvas, approx. 5' 3" x 4' 1". Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. |
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| Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon, 1805–1808. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris |
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| Jacques-Germain Soufflot, the Panthéon (Sainte-Geneviève), Paris, 1755–1792 |
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| Pierre Vignon, La Madeleine, Paris, 1807–1842 |
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| Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1808. Marble, life size. Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Richard Boyle (Earl of Burlington) and William Kent, Chiswick House, near London, begun 1725. British Crown Copyright. |
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| John Wood the Younger, the Royal Crescent, Bath, England, 1769–1775 |
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| Robert Adam, Etruscan Room, Osterley Park House, Middlesex, England, begun 1761. By courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1770–1806 |
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| Drawing of view of Washington, 1852, showing Benjamin Latrobe's Capitol (1803–1807) and Major L'Enfant's plan (created in 1791) of the city. |
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| Horatio Greenough, George Washington, 1832–1841. Marble, approx. 11' 4" high. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
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| Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa, 1804. Oil on canvas, approx. 17' 5" x 23' 7". Louvre, Paris |
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| Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, The Burial of Atala, 1808. Oil on canvas, approx. 6' 11" x 8' 9". Louvre, Paris. |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer, 1827. Oil on canvas, approx. 12' 8" x 16' 103/4". Louvre, Paris. |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814. Oil on canvas, approx. 2' 11" x 5' 4". Louvre, Paris. |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Paganini, 1819. Pencil drawing, approx. 12" x 81/2". Louvre, Paris |
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri 14, ca. 1750. Etching, second state, approx. 1' 4" x 1' 9". Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. |
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| Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781. Oil on canvas, 3' 4" x 4' 2". The Detroit Institute of the Arts (gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bert L. Smokler and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleishman). |
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| William Blake, Ancient of Days, frontispiece of Europe: A Prophecy, 1794. Metal relief etching, hand-colored, approx. 9 1/2" x 6 3/4". Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, England. |
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| Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, from Los Caprichos, ca. 1798. Etching and aquatint, 8 1/2" x 6". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918). |
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| Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV, 1800. Oil on canvas, approx. 9' 2" x 11'. Museo del Prado, Madrid. |
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| Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1814. Oil on canvas, approx. 8' 8" x 11' 3". Museo del Prado, Madrid. |
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| Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Children, 1819-1823. Detail of a detached fresco on canvas, full size approx. 4' 9" x 2' 8". Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819. Oil on canvas, approx. 16' x 23'. Louvre, Paris |
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| Théodore Géricault, Insane Woman (Envy), 1822-1823. Oil on canvas, approx. 2' 4" x 1' 9". Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons. |
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| Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1826. Oil on canvas, approx. 12' 1" x 16' 3". Louvre, Paris |
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| Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830. Oil on canvas, approx. 8' 6" x 10' 8". Louvre, Paris |
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| Eugène Delacroix, Tiger Hunt, 1854. Oil on canvas, approx. 2' 5" x 3'. Louvre, Paris |
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| FranÁois Rude, La Marseillaise, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1833-1836. Approx. 42' x 26'. |
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| Antoine-Louis Barye, Jaguar Devouring a Hare, 1850-1851. Bronze, approx. 1' 4" x 3' 1". Louvre, Paris. |
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| Caspar David Friedrich, Cloister Graveyard in the Snow, 1810. Oil on canvas, approx. 3' 11" x 5' 10" (painting destroyed during World War II). |
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| John Constable, The Haywain, 1821. Oil on canvas, 4' 3" x 6' 2". National Gallery, London |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840. Oil on canvas, 2' 11 3/4" x 4' 1/4". Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Henry Lillie Pierce Fund). |
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| Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (Connecticut River near Northampton), 1836. Oil on canvas, 6' 4" x 4' 31/2". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1908). |
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| Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868. Oil on canvas, 5' 11" x 10'. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C |
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| Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight In the Wilderness, 1860. Oil on canvas, 101.6 cm. x 162.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1965.233) |
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| Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, 1865. Oil on canvas, 2' 1/8" x 3' 2 1/8". The Metropolitan Museum of Art (bequest of Adelaide Milton de Groot, 1967), New York |
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| Charles Barry and A. W. N. Pugin, Houses of Parliament, London, designed 1835 |
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| John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England, 1815-1818 |
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| J. L. Charles Garnier, the Opéra, Paris, 1861-1874. |
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| Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, London, 1850-1851. Iron and glass. Courtesy of the Board of Trustees, Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
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| Eugène Durieu and Eugène Delacroix, Draped Model (back view), ca. 1854. Albumen print, 75/16" x 51/8". The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California |
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| Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Still Life in Studio, 1837. Daguerreotype. Collection Société Française de Photographie, Paris |
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| Josiah Johnson Hawes and Albert Sands Southworth, Early Operation under Ether, Massachusetts General Hospital, ca. 1847. Daguerreotype. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. |
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| Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1855. Modern print from original negative in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris |
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| Timothy O'Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863. Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan. Original print by Alexander Gardner. The New York Public Library; Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Rare Books and Manuscript Division, New York. |
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