Market Square, Providence, Rhode Island, During the Great September Gale

1815 Sheet: 39.4 x 52.7 cm (15 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.733

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...

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