Acanthus Leaf from the Coliseum, ca. 1832

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Pen and brown ink with plant speciman attached to sheet

  • Sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 1/8 inches (29.8 × 20.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.563.11

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin. "Manifesto for an American Sublime: Thomas Cole's The Oxbow." Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2018, pp. 72-73 (fig. 49).

Thomas Cole, Acanthus Leaf from the Coliseum, ca. 1832, pen and brown ink with plant speciman attached to sheet. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.563.11.