Sujet

Burning of the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1845. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Burning of the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1845. The destruction of a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, '...an event that is ascribed to the act of an incendiary...'. The academy '...had a good collection of pictures, some fine pieces of sculpture, and a library...the greater part of its invaluable contents are irreparably lost'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM21A06_449

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,5Mo (4,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 31,4cm / 4960 x 3703 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building education arts art burning fire flame flames British museum school disaster Victorian century Philadelphia Pennsylvania gallery Britain catastrophe newspapers press concept B&W academy art gallery United States of America 19th century black & white black and white B W on fire nineteenth century The Print Collector art school Illustrated London News TGN ILN outside newspaper engraving Unknown Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts art centre