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- Title
- The Labors of Hercules: The Dragon of the Garden of the Hesperides (one of the s
- Artist
- Heinrich Aldegrever
- Artist Life Dates
- 1502- circa 1561
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1550
- Accession Number
- 1956/1.68
- Medium and Support
- engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 13.75364
- Primary Keywords
- buildings
- clubs (weapons)
- dragon
- dragons
- fighting
- hercules
- house
- lame
- monsters
- nudes
- rocks
- standing
- tower
- towers (building divisions)
- towers (single built works)
- trees
- Title
- Gas Tower Study #11, Vero Beach, Florida
- Artist
- David Bence
- Physical Description
- Top of a gas tower, highlighting the staircase.
- Object Creation Date
- 2005
- Accession Number
- 2013/1.237
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 10.07030
- Primary Keywords
- towers (building divisions)
- Title
- Model of a four-story watchtower
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- part of the grave furnishing assemblage for the well-to-do family in Central Plains region of Han Dynasty China during the first century CE
- Century
- 1st century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.71.2
- Medium and Support
- red earthenware with green lead glaze
- relevance
- rank 10.07030
- Primary Keywords
- funerary art
- towers
- Title
- Model of a four-story watchtower
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- model of a four story tower
- each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges
- a human figurine stands in front of each door
- Century
- 1st century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.71.3
- Medium and Support
- red earthenware with green lead glaze
- relevance
- rank 10.07030
- Primary Keywords
- funerary art
- towers
- Title
- Gas Tower Study #10, Vero Beach, Florida
- Artist
- David Bence
- Physical Description
- Two gas towers surrounded by a concrete wall.
- Object Creation Date
- 2000
- Accession Number
- 2013/1.236
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 10.07030
- Primary Keywords
- towers (building divisions)
- Title
- Model of a four-story watchtower
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- model of a four story tower
- each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges
- a human figurine stands in front of each door
- Century
- 1st century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.71.1
- Medium and Support
- red earthenware with green lead glaze
- relevance
- rank 10.07030
- Primary Keywords
- funerary art
- towers
- Title
- Model of a four-story watchtower
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- model of a four story tower
- each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges
- a human figurine stands in front of each door
- Century
- 1st century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.71.4
- Medium and Support
- red earthenware with green lead glaze
- relevance
- rank 10.07030
- Primary Keywords
- funerary art
- towers
- Title
- The Cluster
- Artist
- Arthur Osver
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1912
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1947
- Accession Number
- 1950/1.175
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 9.95959
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- factory
- water towers
- Title
- Petits Mobil Station, New Jersey
- Artist
- George A. Tice
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1938
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1974
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.13
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.85128
- Primary Keywords
- buildings
- car
- gasoline
- water towers
- Title
- New York Sky Some Clouds
- Artist
- Emilio Sanchez
- Physical Description
- An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers. A water tower is visible over the top of a building on the left.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1921-1999
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1980
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.136
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 9.74530
- Primary Keywords
- cityscapes
- oil painting
- skyscrapers
- water towers
- Title
- Conway Castle
- Artist
- Alfred Rosling
- Artist Life Dates
- 1802-1880's
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.337
- Medium and Support
- albumen print on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.74530
- Primary Keywords
- castles
- suspension bridges
- towers (building divisions)
- Title
- Aqueduct of Nerone, Tivoli
- Artist
- Joseph Antoine David de Marseille
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts a landscape with two figures against a tree in dark wash in the lower left foreground and a faintly washed mid-ground scene of a relief of a crowd of figures on an architectural element. An arch of an aqueduct and a faint castle tower somewhat in ruins appear in the background surrounded by lush foliage.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1725-1789
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.191
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink, black chalk and grey wash over graphite on laid paper, laid down
- relevance
- rank 9.64158
- Primary Keywords
- aqueducts
- landscapes (representations)
- towers (building divisions)
- trees
- Title
- Nostalgia (Boston)
- Artist
- Saitô Kiyoshi
- Physical Description
- The scene shows a group of buildings with white colored rooftops. Two buildings rise up in the foreground on the right and left. The right building has a red side with vertical lines hashed into it. The left building has two white triangles on its roof. In the middle ground is a smaller building with a green-domed tower rising up the middle of the composition. A small red figure stands on the white ground to the right of this tower. The background shows the large white rooftop of another building, with small dark rooflines of buildings visible behind it.
- Artist Life Dates
- (active 1907 - 1997)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1956
- Accession Number
- 1958/2.36
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.64158
- Primary Keywords
- boston (inhabited place)
- church towers
- cityscapes
- snow
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk and a royal devotee from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This painting is a rare depiction of the Jina’s first preaching. It is said that the speech of the Jina is like no other and that miracles occur upon hearing it. Here the Jina is depicted with four heads, representing the miraculous ability to see from all four directions at once. The golden-hued Jina and the monk who venerate a Jina are nude, identifying them as belonging to the Digambara (sky-clad) sect of Jainism.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.173
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.44062
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- figures (representations)
- nudes
- towers (single built works)
- trees
- Title
- Rimini with a View of the Tiberius Bridge
- Artist
- Samuel Prout
- Physical Description
- This small watercolor represents a view of a city on the banks of a river. A bridge in the middle ground connects the city, whose buildings run to the water's edge. A woman wearing a bright white shirt with a blue dress and a brilliant red scarf stands in the foreground. A boat covered by a red-and-white striped canopy, poled by a man in the bow, approaches the near shore.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1783 - 1852)
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1824-1852
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.511.1
- Medium and Support
- watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.44062
- Primary Keywords
- boats
- italy (nation)
- riverbanks
- rivers
- towers (building divisions)
- watercolors
- Title
- Landscape with Tower and Distant Lake
- Artist
- William Payne
- Physical Description
- A watercolor primarily in greens, blues, black and grey depicting a landscape with rolling hills and a tower and lake in the distance. A family of weary travelers are positioned in the shaded left foreground. A herd of sheep and two donkeys rest in the sunlit fields in the mid-ground.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1760 - 1830)
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century - early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.215
- Medium and Support
- watercolor on medium white wove paper
- relevance
- rank 9.34325
- Primary Keywords
- donkeys
- lakes
- landscapes (environments)
- sheep
- towers (single built works)
- travelers
- Title
- Rotherhithe, one of the "Sixteen Etchings," or the "Thames Set"
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Physical Description
- Two men smoking long-stem pipes are seen sitting on a balcony. Behind them are visible the masts of ships along the bank, and further behind them in the distance a river sweeps towards the left. Buildings crowd the shore and boats are shown moored or in the river.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1860
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.345
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint on laid Japan tissue
- relevance
- rank 8.73607
- Primary Keywords
- buildings
- seated
- sitting
- water
- water towers
- watercraft
- Title
- Rotherhithe, one of the "Sixteen Etchings," or the "Thames Set"
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Physical Description
- Two men smoking long-stem pipes are seen sitting on a balcony. Behind them are visible the masts of ships along the bank, and further behind them in the distance a river sweeps towards the left. Buildings crowd the shore and boats are shown moored or in the river.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1860
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.346
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.48862
- Primary Keywords
- buildings
- seated
- water
- water towers
- Title
- Bounded on the West by the Land Under Water
- Artist
- Kay Sage
- Physical Description
- Four spare industrial structures rise at different angles into an empty landscape. On the viewer's right, a scaffolding rises from the lower corner and angles to the left. On the left, another scaffold structure runs from the bottom corner along the left edge. In the middle, a building-like structure rises from the bottom of the composition and leans into the visual space, resting on a long rectangular solid that is draped with a cloth.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1898 - 1963
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1946
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.1
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 7.91266
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- industrial buildings
- industrial complexes
- industrial landscapes
- landscapes
- oil painting
- scaffolds
- surrealism
- surrealist
- tower
- towers (single built works)
- water