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After a Gale--Wreckers

Artist: James Hamilton, American, 1819-1878
Medium: Oil on panel
Dates: ca. 1875
Dimensions: 7 15/16 x 16 in. (20.2 x 40.7 cm)
Signature: Signed lower left: "JHamilton"
Inscriptions: Inscribed on verso: "After a Gale--Wreckers / Jas Hamilton / 1875 / Alexander Cowley / with my kind regards / Jas Hamilton"; upper left: "1002"; lower right: "#1002"
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 2002.32.2
Credit Line: Bequest of Nancy Hay
Image: Overall, 2002.32.2_transp5774.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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