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Market Square, Providence, Rhode Island, During the Great September Gale
1815
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This anonymous drawing combines a meticulous depiction of actual buildings with a wonderfully abstract rendering of waves and weather effects. The artist was led to stretch his artistic abilities because of a bizarre and memorable event: a hurricane that washed ships into the streets of downtown Providence in September of 1815.
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- Title: Market Square, Providence, Rhode Island, During the Great September Gale
- Date Created: 1815
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 39.4 x 52.7 cm (15 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Mrs. Clare Caldwell, Warren, OH, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.733
- Medium: black crayon and pastel, with graphite and stylus; scraped and incised in places
- Inscriptions: VERSO, upper left, in graphite: 986/4 [sideways]
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: America, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Clare Caldwell
- Collection: DR - American 19th Century
- Accession Number: 1930.733
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