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Marsh Collection

Resources

American History Museum

David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000).

Caroline Crane Marsh, Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh, Vol. 1 [all published] (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1888).

Helena E. Wright, The First Smithsonian Collection: the European Engravings of George Perkins Marsh and the Role of Prints in the U.S. National Museum (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015).________.

Prints at the Smithsonian: The Origins of a National Collection (Washington: National Museum of American History, 1996).

Digitized volumes from the collection of George Perkins Marsh, sold to the Smithsonian, and still held by the Smithsonian Libraries.


Portrait of Joseph Carreras

A Fruit Piece

A Flower Piece

Belisarius

Satan tempting Christ in the wilderness

Hercules on his funeral pyre at Mt Oeta

The Beggar

Lioness protecting her young

The Education of Achilles

Family concert

Silenus

The steer

Horses

Ceres and Phytalus

Goats

Roebuck Fleeing

Roe Deer

Man leaning on his stick

Peasant with his hand inside his cloak

The Hog Killers

Mother with two children

Female portrait

Bust of a laughing peasant

Adoration of the Magi

Man in an arbor (after)

Peasant with his hands behind his back

Self-Portrait in a Flat Cap with a shawl about his shoulders

The Painter

Rembrandt etching a plate

The Baptism of the Eunuch

The Ringball Player

Return of the Prodigal Son

Beggar seated on a bank (copy)

Catherine II Empress of Russia

Minerva and the Muses


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