The Commerce of Vision
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Richard Caton Woodville, Waiting for the Stage, detail, 1851, oil on canvas, 15 x 18⅛ in. Corcoran Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, William A. Clark Fund, and through gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie and Orme Wilson/Bridgeman Images.
Alphonse Bigot, “McAllister & Brother, Opticians Have Removed from the Old Stand, No. 48 Chestnut Street, to Their New Store, 1855” (Philadelphia: Printed By Wm. S. Young’s Steam Power Job Printing Office, 1855), broadside. Library Company of Philadelphia.
Francis W. Edmonds, The Speculator, 1852, oil on canvas, 25⅛ x 30⅛ in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Gift of Ruth C. and Kevin McCann in affectionate memory of Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States.