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The Course of Empire 5: Desolation

Thomas Cole, 1836
The Course of Empire 5: Desolation, Thomas Cole
The Course of Empire 5: Desolation, zoomed in
99.7 cmThe Course of Empire 5: Desolation scale comparison160.34 cm

The Course of Empire 5: Desolation is a Hudson River School Oil on Canvas Painting created by Thomas Cole in 1836. It lives at the New-York Historical Society in New York. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Nature and The Course of Empire. DownloadSee The Course of Empire 5: Desolation in the Kaleidoscope

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