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Description: Exhumation of the Mastodon, detail

TitleExhumation of the Mastodon, detail

Creator namePeale, Charles Willson

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1807

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMaryland Historical Society, Baltimore

http://www.mdhs.org/digitalimage/exhumation-mastodon

Accession numberBCLM-MA.5911

SubjectsScientific discoveries in artNatural historyExcavations (Archaeology) in artFossilsDinosaurs

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Introduction: The Popularity of Geology

Rebecca Bedell

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

~GEOLOGY REIGNED through much of the nineteenth century as America’s most “fashionable” science. Between 1820 and 1870, men and women across the country avidly pursued an interest in the field. They pushed their way into crowded lecture halls to hear talks by prominent geologists; they bought geological textbooks, and they scoured the...

Author

Rebecca Bedell

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.3-15

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00117.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18359&redirecttoanchor=38223

Chapter subject tags:Scientific discoveries in artLandscape painting, American--19th centuryGeology in art--United States--19th centuryArt and natural history--United States--19th centuryHudson River school of landscape painting

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