Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention

by Catherine Roach, Tanya Pohrt, Peter John Brownlee, et al.

Insightful essays that offer a wide-ranging examination of a 19th-century American masterpiece

Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33) is one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early 19th-century American art. It isalso one of the last works Morse painted before turninghis attention to the invention of the telegraph andMorse code.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300207611
• ISBN13: 9780300207613
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Other Distribution
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.8" x 10.4"