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  • Three Masted American Barque, (painting)

    Date
    Ca. 1830-1840
  • Lobelia paludosa Nutt.

    Collection Date
    1842 to 1849
  • Shirasuka, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido

    Date
    late 18th-mid 19th century
    Period
    Edo period
  • The laurelled chefs-d'oeuvre d'art from the Paris exhibition and salon, also from the Royal Academy of London and other public galleries of Europe and America one hundred photogravures and two hundred typogravures, from the most select and celebrated paintings of modern artists of all nations with descriptions by Geo. A. Smith, B.A

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    1890
    19th century
  • Trading Double Canoe or Trading Canoe

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    ca 1844
  • Portrait of a novel : Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece / Michael Gorra

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    2012
    C2012
    19th century
    20th century
  • The poetic home : designing the 19th-century domestic interior / Stefan Muthesius

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    2009
    19th century
  • Rokudai ukiyoeshi ketteiban / Noguchi Yonejirō cho

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    1932
    1933
    Shōwa 7-8 [1932-1933]
    Edo period, 1600-1868
  • Captain David Worth (1773-1855), (painting)

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    1845
  • Emma Smith, (painting)

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