This painting shows a park-like landscape with trees, flowers, bushes, and a pond, all surrounded by light brown paths. The pond is in the center of the park, with light green-blue water framed by bushes, ferns, and tall flowers. Across from the pond are three large, white structures that could be mausoleums. Behind them is a hill with trees and more white graves or mausoleums on top of it. On either side of the pond, past the paths that encircle it, are tall trees with leaves in shades of dark green and brown. On the right side is a tall white structure that could be a grave or a monument.…
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Mount Auburn Cemetery

Thomas Chambers (American, 1808 - 1866 or after)

mid 19th century

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 35.6 x 46 cm (14 x 18 1/8 in.) ; framed: 44.6 x 54.4 x 3.3 cm (17 9/16 x 21 7/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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