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Artist:
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Henry Lewis
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Title:
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St. Anthony Falls As It Appeared in 1848
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Date:
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1855
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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19 x 27 in. (48.26 x 68.58 cm) (canvas)
18 5/8 x 26 1/2 in. (47.31 x 67.31 cm) (sight)
28 x 36 1/8 x 4 in. (71.12 x 91.76 x 10.16 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of E. C. Gale
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Location:
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Gallery 303
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From 1846 to 1848, Lewis worked up and down the Mississippi River making sketches for a huge panorama which he completed in Cincinnati in 1849. This painting is based on one of those earlier sketches, and was painted while Lewis was living in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Lewis, Henry
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Nationality:
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American (born England)
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Life Dates:
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American (born England), 1819 - 1904
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Date [Falls of St. Anthony in 1848 H. Lewis, 1855] on stretcher:
"Falls of St. Anthony in 1848 By H. Lewis in 1855"
on paper on stretcher:
"Renova
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Landscape.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Germany, , Düsseldorf,
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Accession #:
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28.79
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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