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TitleThe Roman Daughter

Creator namePeale, Rembrandt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1811

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions84 5/8 × 62 7/8 in. (215 × 159.8 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/roman-daughter-19323

Accession number1977.103

SubjectsPrisoners in artHistory, Ancient, in artPainting, American--19th century

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1. The Forum: History’s Largest Page

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

In the winter of 1864, when the final battles of the Civil War were being fought and the assassination of President Lincoln was only a few months in the future, a young man from Ohio stood among the ruins of the ancient Roman Forum ...

Author

William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-42

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16820&redirecttoanchor=25340

Chapter subject tags:Roman Forum (Rome, Italy)United States--Civilization--Roman influencesPainting, American--19th centuryArtists--Travel--Italy--RomeAmerican literature--19th centuryRome--HistoryWest, Benjamin, 1738-1820Sculpture, American--19th centuryVanderlyn, John, 1775-1852Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908Rome (Italy)--In literature

1. From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Eakins: A Century of Philadelphia Scientists, Artists, and Provocateurs

Amy Werbel

Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Sometime between 1883 and 1885, a colleague photographed Thomas Eakins unclothed and holding aloft a naked female student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (fig. 1). In recent decades, this image has been tendered as the most tangible proof of the artist’s indiscretions. Although the scene undoubtedly is worthy of critique, it also is worth noting that Eakins hardly was the first indiscreet Philadelphian. More than a century before that shutter snapped, Charles Willson Peale sketched …

Author

Amy Werbel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-27

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00168.004

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Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Painting, American--19th centuryPhiladelphia (Pa.)--HistoryPeale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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