Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
c.1832
Oil on canvas; 10″ x 18″
Albany Institute of History & Art Purchase. Evelyn newman Fund. 1964.71
[ Ex-Coll. Mrs. Florence Cole Vincent, granddaughter of the artist]
Source.
“The plants which we have found growing upon the Colosseum … amount to no less a number than 420 species …”
Richard Deakin, Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855).
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