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List of illustrations

  • Combustione plastica
  • Slaughter Pen, Foot of the Round Top, Gettysburg
  • At the Slaughterhouse
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Altar of Hieron
  • Untitled
  • Gladiator floor mosaic
  • Gladiator floor mosaic
  • Floor mosaic
  • Floor mosaic
  • Floor mosaic with arena scenes (munera and venationes)
  • Floor mosaic, detail of bear and bull
  • Floor mosaic, detail showing Execution by animals (Damnatio ad bestias)
  • Floor mosaic, detail showing Execution by animals (Damnatio ad bestias)
  • Villa Romana del Casale
  • Floor mosaic showing the Great Hunt
  • Floor mosaic showing the Great Hunt, detail of hunters capturing a tiger, gazelle, and bison
  • Floor mosaic showing the Great Hunt, detail of hunters capturing a rhinoceros
  • Floor mosaic showing the Great Hunt, detail of injured lioness attacking a hunter
  • Floor mosaic showing the Great Hunt, detail of hunters transporting caged wildlife in a cart
  • Floor mosaic showing the Great Hunt, detail
  • Floor mosaic showing the Great Hunt, detail
  • Floor mosaic, detail of children hunting animals
  • Feed Lot
  • Cruel
  • Coronado Feeders, Dalhart Texas
  • Coronado Feeders, Dalhart Texas, detail
  • Anita Krajnc gives water to an overheated pig on way to slaughter
  • Portrait Mother Earth
  • Washington Navy Yard, D.C., Lewis Payne
  • Stunning is not always effective. Hanging from a chain, a conscious steer writhes in agony and fear before having its throat cut, Turkey
  • Untitled
  • Cubi XIX
  • Trail's End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, August 10, 1973
  • I Like America and America Likes Me
  • Taihu rock
  • Auspicious Dragon Taihu Rock
  • Dibondo (grave object)
  • Still Life with the Head of a Sheep
  • The Severed Heads
  • In the Garden (Celia Thaxter in Her Garden)
  • The Sandpiper
  • An Island Garden
  • Home of the Hummingbird
  • The Cruelties of Fashion—Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds
  • Lady Trying on a Hat (The Black Hat)
  • A Dedication (To all those who love the beautiful and mourn over the senseless and cruel destruction of bird life and beauty)
  • The Little Pond, Appledore
  • The Home of the Heron
  • The Vanishing Race—Navaho
  • View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
  • View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, detail
  • View of Hoosac Mountain and Pontoosuc Lake near Pittsfield, Massachusetts
  • The Course of Empire: Consummation, detail
  • Map of the Oxbow, Connecticut River, West of Skinner State Park (on Mount Holyoke), Massachusetts
  • Map of the United States of America with its Territories & Districts
  • The Promised Land–The Grayson Family
  • Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way
  • The Oregon Trail
  • Does Not Such a Meeting make Amends?
  • American Progress
  • View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains (Sunny Morning on the Hudson River)
  • Mount Etna from Taormina
  • View of Florence
  • Massachusetts forest cover in 1830 (a); and (b) 1999 (MassGIS, 2002)
  • The Oxbow
  • The Falls of Kaaterskill
  • View from Mount Holyoke
  • Thomas Cole's fossil and rock collection
  • Baron Alexander von Humboldt
  • Humanitas. Literae. Fruges.
  • Atlas Géographique et Physique
  • Allegory of America from New Inventions of Modern Times (Nova Reperta)
  • Residents of Warren County, North Carolina, protesting against the dumping of hazardous PCBs at a local landfill
  • Ballet performance at the Robert E. Lee Memorial, Richmond, Virginia
  • Edward Mitchell Bannister at Battery Park, Newport, Rhode Island
  • Untitled (Landscape sketch)
  • Untitled (Landscape sketch)
  • Oak Trees
  • The Crossroads of the Eagle's Nest, Fontainebleau
  • Untitled (Landscape, Man on Horse)
  • Approaching Storm
  • The Boat-Studio
  • Edward Mitchell Bannister's yawl Fanchon
  • Tree Landscape
  • A Tree in the Fontainebleau Forest
  • The Mill in Knightsville
  • Maps of Pawtuxet, Cranston Print Works, and Knightsville
  • Cranston Print Works, Cranston
  • Untitled (Urban Factory with Smokestack)
  • The Hay Gatherers
  • Fort Dumpling, Jamestown, Rhode Island
  • Old Fort Dumpling
  • Old Fort Dumplin, Jamestown, R. I.
  • Fort Dumpling, Jamestown, Rhode Island, detail
  • The Great Chain of Being
  • Hierarchia Temporalis
  • Aztec Calendar
  • Digital reconstruction of the now lost Lienzo de Tlaxcala
  • Allegory of the Franciscan Mission in New Spain
  • Franciscan Friar Teaching Indigenous Nahuas with Images
  • Crucifixion with Franciscan Friar and Nahuas
  • Vision of Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • The Great Chain of Being, detail
  • The Great Chain of Being, detail
  • The Great Chain of Being, detail
  • Twilight in the Wilderness
  • Twilight in the Wilderness, detail
  • Our Banner in the Sky
  • The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
  • Twilight, A Sketch
  • The Temptation of Christ
  • Band basket
  • Cross in the Wilderness, detail
  • The Heart of the Andes, detail
  • Beacon, Off Mount Desert Island
  • Sketch A, showing the progress of the survey in section no. 1, from 1844 to 1851 [New England Coast]
  • View of Blackwell's Island, New York (Youle's Shot Tower, East River, New York)
  • Parthenon at Night, Athens
  • Evening on the Sea
  • Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636
  • The Icebergs
  • The Icebergs, detail
  • Midway: Message from the Gyre
  • I'll Melt with You
  • Napoleon Crossing the Alps
  • Olana
  • Olana
  • Saint Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima
  • The Tree of Papacy
  • Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
  • Saint Sebastian Tied to the Tree
  • Saint Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima, detail
  • Christ on the Way to Calvary
  • Scorpions from De animalibus insectis
  • Piazza e Chiesa di S. Andrea della Valle
  • Plan of Sant'Andrea della Valle and the medieval church of San Sebastianello
  • Aerial view of Rome: Cloaca Maxima, Sant'Andrea della Valle, Palatine Hippodrome, Circus Maximus, and Euripus/Rebulican tunnel
  • Sbocca of the Cloaca Maxima on the Tiber River
  • Veduta delle antiche Sostruzioni fatte da Tarquinio Superbo dette il Bel Lido
  • Death of the Virgin
  • Butcher's Shop
  • Persecutions under Emperors Maximinus II and Licinius, detail of a Christian Tortured
  • Trattato de gli instrumenti de martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame
  • The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew
  • Judith and Holofernes
  • The Loves of the Gods (The Farnese Gallery)
  • Illustrations of the moon based on telescopic observations
  • Assumption of the Virgin
  • Waterloo Bridge, Effect of Fog
  • The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog)
  • A London Fog
  • Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect with Smoke
  • Patent for Metal Rolls for Paint
  • The Coalmen
  • Impression, Sunrise
  • Interior of Claude Monet's studio at Giverny
  • Waterloo Bridge: Effect of Sunlight in the Fog
  • London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog
  • Water Lilies (Nymphéas)
  • The Weather Project
  • London Fog
  • Pepsi Pavilion, Expo '70
  • Ice Watch Paris
  • Condensation Cube
  • The Human Cost
  • Crude / Sunflower
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