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Chiapas, Falls of the River Cháncalá
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Department of Photographs
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Gift of B. P. Bowditch
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The Falls of Saint Anthony
The Falls of Saint Anthony
Between 1830 and 1836 the painter George Catlin followed the trail of Meriwetther Lewis and William Clark’s mythical expedition along the Mississippi, becoming the first artist to ...
Falls of Saint Anthony, Upper Mississippi
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Henry Lewis was one of the first explorers who began to travel the upper Mississippi River in the mid-nineteenth century to admire the exuberance of its cataracts. In summer 1847 t...
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Barrels Kangxi, Qing Dynasty
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'Tidal `bore' coming up the River Hoogley (frm nature)
7/11/81. Howrah (West of Calcutta) seen on the further
bank'
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7/11/81. Howrah (West of Calcutta) seen on the further
bank'
Pencil drawing of a tidal bore on the River
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Krishna Subdues the Serpent King Kaliya (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series
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Emperor Charles VI. elevates Christoph Adalbert Putz, the perkmist in Horní Blatná, to the Bohemian Knight’s State, awards him a coat of arms and predicate von Braidenbach
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Character: description on folk. 6b - 7b, miniature on folk. 8a, 160 x 163 mm.
A split shield. At the top there is a silver horizontal river in the red, accompanied by three silver ...