This painting shows a collection of buildings and towers on rolling green hills around a light gray body of water. In the bottom right corner, ships with billowing sails glide on a wide waterway that leads off into three rivers in different directions, each with multiple bridges spanning them. On the green land is a mix of buildings ranging from modest to towering structures, some resembling modern skyscrapers and others medieval fortresses and towers. The more modern buildings are farther in the distance, resting atop gray and blue clouds under a pale-yellow sky. The color palette includes…

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A City of Fantasy

American 19th Century

mid 19th century

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 73 x 103.2 cm (28 3/4 x 40 5/8 in.) ; framed: 114.3 x 85.7 x 5 cm (45 x 33 3/4 x 1 15/16 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: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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