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Margaret Fuller (Marchioness Ossoli)

Margaret Fuller (Marchioness Ossoli)

Albert Sands Southworth  (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811–1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts)

Artist: Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808–1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire)
Date: ca. 1850
Medium: Daguerreotype
Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937
Accession Number: 37.14.10

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The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck and Workshop Assistant (Netherlandish, Maaseik ca. 1390–1441 Bruges)

Date: ca. 1430
Accession Number: 33.92ab

A Tusk Figurine of a Man

A Tusk Figurine of a Man

Date: ca. 3900–3500 B.C.
Accession Number: 23.2.31

Corner chair

Corner chair

Attributed to Joseph Armitt (died 1747)

Date: 1740–60
Accession Number: 25.115.15

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure (

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")

Restored by Pacetti, Vincenzo

Date: 27 B.C.-A.D. 68
Accession Number: 1990.247

Standing Woman

Standing Woman

Gaston Lachaise (American (born France) 1882–1935)

Date: 1912-1915; cast 1930
Accession Number: 1984.433.34

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