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Narcissus [recto]
Thomas Cole · 1828 · pen and black ink on wove paper
Public domain
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About this picture
Narcissus [recto] is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Cole, dated 1828. Pen and black ink on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Narcissus [recto]” (1828) is either a Catskill view or one of Cole’s allegorical landscapes, where the scenery is also a story about the course of a civilization.
About the artist
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was the founder of the Hudson River School. He painted the Catskills and also allegorical series about the course of empires, using landscape as a moral story.
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