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Pushing for Rail, 1874. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 13 x 30 1/16 in. (33 x 76.4 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Pushing for Rail
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1844–1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 13 x 30 1/16 in. (33 x 76.4 cm)
- Credit line
- Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1844–1916
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.