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Powell Department of the Interior, National Park Service ca. 1938 "One Third of a Nation
Inscription: Stickers: [1] Description cut from catalogue of „Marquess of Exeter Sale, 1888“ (ink), „286“ (pencil); 286 C (pencil); [2] I.B.; [3] 1067 (pencil)Marking: Stamped on lid, on shoulder band, and twice on plain band above base: three trefoils voided within a shaped shield (maker’s mark)
"British Silver: The Wealth of a Nation," May 15, 2012–January 20, 2013.
Inscription: Signed and inscribed in Cameron’s hand in ink on mount, below image BL to BR: „From life Taken at his own residence, Collingwood, April 1867. Julia Margaret Cameron“; signed in Herschel’s hand in pencil on mount, recto BC: „J
friendship of 31 years’ duration that the high task of giving his portrait to the nation
The first generation of modern Egyptian artists was driven by a renewed appreciation of their national patrimony and the return to ancient pharaonic art detached from any African, Arab, or religious cultural references.
with centuries of foreign occupation, were united in their aspiration for a modern nation
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aware of the unique vision that led them to explore a new continent and establish a nation
Two scholars consider the displacement of Assyrian people and their art.
over the entrance to the National Museum of Kabul in Afghanistan that reads: “A nation
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
then a shifting constellation of aristocratic territories rather than a single nation
In May 1876, accompanied by his mother and his sister Emily, Sargent began his first trip to the United States, which would include visits to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and Niagara Falls.
1887 assuaged the doubts of English critics, and its acquisition for the British nation
By the late nineteenth century, the concept of “the vanishing West” drove many sculptors to record their perceptions of western life.
American that differentiated the United States from Europe and proclaimed the young nation
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