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

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

Date
1815
Medium
black crayon and pastel, with graphite and stylus; scraped and incised in places
Culture
America
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
112310

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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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Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Clare Caldwell
Provenance
Mrs. Clare Caldwell, Warren, OH | February 8, 1939: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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