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The Dream of the Architect

The Dream of the Architect, Thomas Cole

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136 cm

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214 cm

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The Dream of the Architect is a Romantic Oil on Canvas Painting created by Thomas Cole in 1840. It lives at the Toledo Museum of Art in the United States. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Greek and Roman Mythology and Temple. Download

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Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect, Recommended Reading

Thomas Cole was one of the most famous landscape painters of his day, yet at the height of his popularity he listed himself in the New York City Directory as an architect. Find out why in this unusual biography of the artist.

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