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Howard Woody

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Nude, Hand on Hip, George Biddle, lithograph
Miniature Portrait of Mary Hooper Shaw Fleming, Edward Greene Malbone, watercolor on ivory
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Childe Hassam, etching, engraving
The work depicts an erupting volcano (Mount Vesuvius) with plume of ash and smoke in distant background, transected by a long horizontal cloud. A vast expanse of placid water (Tyrrhenian Sea), receding in space to the base of the volcano, fills the fore- and middle-ground.