FIGURE 51 Thomas Cole, The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829

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Description: The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge

TitleThe Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge

Creator nameCole, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1829

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions35 3/4 × 47 5/8 in. (90.8 × 121.4 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5080

Accession number1983.4(0)

SubjectsHistory of Biblical events--ArtHudson River school of landscape paintingGeology in artLandscape painting, American--19th centuryFloods in artSkulls in artNoah's ark in art

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7. Atlantis: Arcadia and Armageddon

Aaron Sachs

Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

The island lay, as through the ages past, fair and imperial in the Atlantic. Though now was it becoming wanton, even to its undoing. Else would not this be written.
—Elizabeth G. Birkmaier, Poseidon’s Paradise: The Romance of Atlantis (1892)

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Aaron Sachs

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.300-346

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Chapter subject tags:Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901Cemeteries--United States--History--19th centuryIndians of North America--Funeral customs and ritesAmerican literature--19th centuryEnvironmentalism--United States--History--19th centuryArcadianismCole, Thomas, 1801-1848

Chapter One: Thomas Cole and the Fashionable Science

Rebecca Bedell

The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875

~IN THE COLLECTION of the Bronck Museum in Coxsackie, New York, is a battered wooden box the size and shape of a briefcase. It contains Thomas Cole’s (1801–1848) mineral collection (fig. 5), one of the many bits of evidence we have of his interest in geology. Measuring about twenty by eighteen inches, the box holds...

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Rebecca Bedell

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-45

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00117.005

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Chapter subject tags:Natural historyExcavations (Archaeology) in artScientific discoveries in artGeologyLandscape painting, American

4. Uncertain Passages

Jennifer Raab

Frederic Church: The Art and Science of Detail

In 1859, the year both the Heart of the Andes and The Origin of Species appeared, Frederic Church traveled to the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts to sketch (fig. 38). The terrain was constantly shifting, as glaciers and icebergs remade the map. Explorers embarked to...

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Jennifer Raab

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.87-121

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00051.007

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Chapter subject tags:Polar regions--Discovery and explorationUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848Melville, Herman, 1819-1891Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. Icebergs

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