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  • New York Fashions, (painting)

    Date
    Ca. 1830
  • Thomas Alexander Tefft : American architecture in transition, 1845-1860 / an exhibition by the Department of Art, Brown University

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    1988
    C1988
    19th century
  • Mrs. William Cowee with Music, (painting)

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    Ca. 1836
  • The dead will arise : Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle- killing movement of 1856-7 / J.B. Peires

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    1989
    19th century
    Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857
  • American graphics, 1860 to 1940 : selected from the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art / introduction by Alan Fern ; catalogue by Ellen S. Jacobowitz and George H. Marcus

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    1982
    19th century
    20th century
  • Lorenzo Bartolini and Italian influences on American sculptors in Florence (1825-50) / by Douglas K.S. Hyland

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    1984
    1981
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  • Descending dragon

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    1760-1849
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    Edo period
  • Corvallis, Oregon, (painting)

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    19th c
  • Hanna Osborne Eagles (1816-1894), (painting)

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    1837
  • The early Hudson River School and the beginning of landscape painting in America / by Sidney Kellner

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    1936
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