Samuel F.B. Morse's Dying Hercules and the War of 1812

Author

Lesko, Diane

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Album amicorum Kenneth C. Lindsay : essays on art and literature

Author (monograph)

Stein, Susan Alyson (Editor, Collective Author); McKee, George D. (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Album amicorum Kenneth C. Lindsay : essays on art and literature. 1990, 235-255, 4 ill.

Publisher

Department of Art and Art History, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Proposes that Morse's painting, Dying Hercules, 1812 (New Haven, Yale University, Art Gallery) was meant as a historical metaphor for England's position in relation to America during the War of 1812.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- United States
• United States
• 1800-1900
• Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
• Painting
• Yale University, Art Gallery||New Haven (CT, USA)
• Dying Hercules
• History painting
• Allegory
• War of 1812

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- États-Unis
• Etats-Unis
• 1800-1900
• Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
• Peinture
• Yale University, Art Gallery||New Haven (CT, USA)
• Hercule mourant
• Peinture d'histoire
• Allégorie
• Guerre de 1812

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19911001-00461042

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