What are the Wild Waves Saying?

James Hamilton

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

James Hamilton (American, 1819–1878). What are the Wild Waves Saying?, 1868. Oil on canvas, 20 1/8 x 29 5/8 in. (51.1 x 75.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Robert E. Blum, 64.143. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

What are the Wild Waves Saying?

Date

1868

Medium

Oil on canvas

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

20 1/8 x 29 5/8 in. (51.1 x 75.2 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower left: "Hamilton"

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso lower right: "Jas Hamilton/ Philada 1859/ [illegible]--1868--"

Credit Line

Gift of Robert E. Blum

Accession Number

64.143

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