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"A Wild Scene" (Sketch for an allegorical subject)
1832
Thomas Cole
1801-1848
American
Unknown
Pen and black and brown ink over graphite pencil on off-white wove paper
Sheet: 12 × 16 13/16 inches (30.5 × 42.7 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
39.333
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1939-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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McDaniel, Amy Ellis. "Works on Paper by Thomas Cole in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA, 80, 1-2 (2006): pp. 16, 20 (fig. 6).
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Thomas Cole, "A Wild Scene" (Sketch for an allegorical subject), 1832, pen and black and brown ink over graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.333.
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