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Solitude, 1818. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 54.5 × 78.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Solitude
- Artist
- Joshua Shaw (American, born England, c. 1777–1860)
- Date
- 1818
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 54.5 × 78.7 cm (21 1/2 × 31 in.)
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; the George F. Harding Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.