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| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Austin E. Quinney with a dog. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
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| Description: | A painted portrait of Andrew Jacques Vieau, son of Jacques Vieau. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a watercolor painting by F.W. Heine of fellow artist Franz Rohrbeck. Rohrbeck is painting a study of a figure for the Jerusalem panorama (c... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a Union Civil War soldier holding a bridle that was created by one of the German panorama painters active in Milwaukee during the 188... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a Union Civil War soldier examining his wound. The study was created as part of the work of the German panorama painters active in M... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a Confederate Civil War sharpshooter aiming his rifle, created as a preliminary study for a Civil War cyclorama. Although unsigned t... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of three Union Civil War soldiers drinking from and holding canteens. The painting is the work of one of the German panorama artists ac... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a Civil War cannon with a soldier in the background and the sketched outline of another soldier in firing position. Although unsigne... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a dead or wounded Civil War soldier created as a preliminary study by one of the Milwaukee panorama painters active during the 1889s.... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a Confederate holding a wagon wheel, created as part of a painting by the Milwaukee panorama painters active during the 1889s. Altho... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A depiction of groups of people viewing a panorama of landscapes on red walls in a large room, some seated at round tables. This sketch accompanies an Aust... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Oil on paper painting of a butterfly. Bierstadt would apply oil paints directly to the paper to form one wing of a butterfly, then fold the paper in Rorsch... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Oil on paper painting of a black butterfly by Alfred Bierstadt. Bierstadt would apply oil paints directly to the paper to form one wing of a butterfly, the... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two preliminary watercolors of the right panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The panel displays the history of Wisconsin ex... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A watercolor of the right panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. This panel displays the history of Wisconsin exploration, mos... |
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