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Cole, Thomas,
Landscape -- Italy
Landscape -- Time
Landscape -- Mountain
Architecture -- Ruins
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Farm
Animal -- Goat
Painting
Roman Campagna, (painting).
Artist:
Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848, painter.
Title:
Roman Campagna, (painting).
Other Titles:
Roman Campagna (Ruins of Aqueducts in the Campagna di Roma), (painting).
Dates:
1843.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
32 1/2 x 48 in. (82.6 x 121.9 cm).
Inscription:
(Lower left:) T. Cole signed
Description:
Italian landscape at dawn with the Apennine Mountains in the background and the ruins of the Roman Aqueduct casting long shadows across the foreground. On the left, a goatherd and his flock are making their way among the ruins.
Subject:
Landscape
--
Italy
--
Rome
Landscape
--
Time
--
Dawn
Landscape
--
Mountain
--
Apennine Mountains
Architecture
--
Ruins
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Roman Aqueduct
Figure male
--
Full length
Occupation
--
Farm
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Shepherd
Animal
--
Goat
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1948.189
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Hicks, [Sarah?], by 1844.
Formerly located California
Dalzell-Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, California by 1935.
Bequest of Gould, Clara Hinton, Santa Barbara, California 1935-1948.
References:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
American Art Journal, V.2, No.2, 1970.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 241-243.
"The Beckoning Land: nature and the American artist, a selection of nineteenth century paintings," Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 1971.
"The Arcadian landscape: nineteenth-century American painters in Italy," Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Museum of Art, 1972.
Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 60.
Illustration:
Image on file.
American Art Journal, V.2, No.2, 1970, pg. 55.
Apoloa, (March 1973).
"The Arcadian landscape: nineteenth-century American painters in Italy," Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Museum of Art, 1972, No.13.
"The Beckoning Land: nature and the American artist, a selection of nineteenth century paintings," Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 1971, pg. 46.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 37.
Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 60.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 06910248
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