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The Potager of the Chateau de Valentinois, Passy

Alexis Joseph Pérignon I
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Unidentified Moravians

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
Owner: American Philosophical Society

Antelope Hunters

Thomas Vigil
Drawing
1920-25
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Gathering of Friends

Katlin Ehling
Decorative Arts
Owner: Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum

Young Friends

Sally Michel
Painting
1987

Stoppage of the Bank, 1822

Rolinda Sharples
Painting
1825-27
Owner: City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

An Old Couple

Ilya Bolotowsky
Painting
c. 1943
Owner: Anchorage Museum of History and Art

The Present

William Edward West
Painting
1833
Owner: J. B. Speed Art Museum

Confederate Currency

Unidentified Artist
Print
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Row of Parishioners

Row of Parishioners

James Pease Blair
Photograph
1958 (printed later)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of James P. Blair

Indian Peace Commissioners in council with the Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho, Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory

Alexander Gardner
Photograph
1868
Owner: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Unidentified Man and Unidentified Woman Singing

Unidentified Man and Unidentified Woman Singing

James Pease Blair
Photograph
1958 (printed later)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of James P. Blair

President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House, Washington

Robert Cruikshank
Print
1841
Owner: Private collection

Study for "The Knatchbull Family" : Mother and two Children

John Singleton Copley
Drawing
1800-03
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Sisters, Taos Pueblo

Leon Shulman Gaspard
Painting
20th century
Owner: United Missouri Bank of Kansas City

Portrait of a Family

Jeremiah Gurney
Photograph
c. 1855
Owner: National Gallery of Art

The National Academy Jury of 1907

Francis Luis Mora
Painting
1907
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Family Group

John Ritto Penniman
Painting
1798
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Memorial To Horation Nelson, Mr. Willaim Davis Gilbert, and Ann S. Daniels

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1828
Owner: Peter Tillou Collection

Crow Indians Receiving Presents from the Indian Peace Commissioners, Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory

Alexander Gardner
Photograph
1868
Owner: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

Embarkation of the Pilgrims at Delft Haven, Holland

Robert Walter Weir
Painting
1843
Owner: U.S. Capitol

First State Election in Detroit, Michigan, 1837

Thomas Mickell Burnham
Painting
c. 1837
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

Weber and Fields

William Gropper
Painting
Owner: Museum of the City of New York, Theatre Collection

Friends II

Raphael Soyer
Painting
1973
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

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