French painter Gustave Courbet exhibits "Burial at Ornans" and "The Stonebreakers" in Paris

At the Salon in Paris, French painter Gustave Courbet exhibited "Burial at Ornans" and "The Stonebreakers," two controversial but influential paintings in which straightforward depictions of ordinary people launched Realism as an artistic style. (By Brian Bockelman)
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John Ross, circa 1843, detail

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John Ross, a Cherokee chief/ drawn, printed and coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment
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Portrait Prints 1840-1850, Library of Congress

John Ross, circa 1843

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2007.
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engraving
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No
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John Ross, a Cherokee chief/ drawn, printed and coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment
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Portrait Prints 1840-1850, Library of Congress

John Grubb Parke, detail

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2007.
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Gen. J.G. Parke, U.S.A.
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Civil War Photographic Collection, Library of Congress

John Grubb Parke

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2007.
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Gen. J.G. Parke, U.S.A.
Source citation
Civil War Photographic Collection, Library of Congress

Edwin Vose Sumner, detail

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E.V. Sumner
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Civil War Photographic Collection, Library of Congress

Edwin Vose Sumner

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2007.
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E.V. Sumner
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Civil War Photographic Collection, Library of Congress

Jeptha Homer Wade, detail

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2007.
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J.H. Wade/ Ambrotype by Brady; engd. by J.C. Buttre
Source citation
Brady-Handy Photographic Collection, Library of Congress

Jeptha Homer Wade

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2007.
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engraving
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No
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J.H. Wade/ Ambrotype by Brady; engd. by J.C. Buttre
Source citation
Brady-Handy Photographic Collection, Library of Congress

John Hancock, detail

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 9, 2007.
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Hon. John Hancock of Texas
Source citation
Brady-Handy Photographic Collection, Library of Congress
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