1. MFA VTS: Scenes of Power
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2. Lesson 1

3. What is going on in this image?
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Don Baltasar Carlos with a Dwarf
1632 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)
Dimensions
128.0 x cm (50 3/8 x 40 1/8 in.)
Accession Number
01.104
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

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Untitled (Children playing with their father)
1959
Imogen Cunningham, American, 1883–1976
Dimensions
Image/Sheet: 19.2 x 18.7 cm (7 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.) Mount: 36.8 x 29.2 cm (14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print

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Title: Attack on Jiuliancheng in China (Seikoku Kyûrenjô kôgeki no zu)   「清國九連城攻撃之啚」 Date: 1894 (Meiji 27), October
Artist: Nakamura Shûkô (中村　秋香)
Japanese, active 1894
Publisher: Sekiguchi Masajirô
Japanese
Blockcutter: Umezawa Minokichi
Object Number: RES

6. Lesson 2

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The Passage of the Delaware
1819 Thomas Sully (American (born in England), 1783–1872)
Dimensions
x cm (146 1/2 x 207 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

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Boy on horseback
English about Probably by Vauxhall Manufactory (English (London)), Formerly attributed to Longton Hall Manufactory (England)
Object Place: Europe, England
Dimensions
15.24 x cm (6 x 7 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Soft-paste porcelain

9. What is going on in this image?
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Pleasure Outing at Mukôjima to View Cherry Blossoms
Mukôjima kôraku zu 向島行楽図
Japanese Edo period 1781–1801 (late Tenmei to early Kansei era) Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814)
Catalogue Raisonné
KJM2-Ukiyo-315; Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 50
Dimensions
Image: 66.2 x 122 cm (26 1/16 x 48 1/16 in.) Overall: 205 x 151 cm (80 11/16 x 59 7/16 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, and mica on silk

10. Lesson 3

11. What is going on in this image?
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Storm Over Lake Otsego
1929 John Steuart Curry (American, 1897–1946)
Dimensions
x cm (40 1/8 x 50 1/4 in.)
Accession Number
55.369
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

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Indian Hunter
modeled 1917, this cast 2002 Paul H. Manship (American, 1885–1966), Cast by Paul King Foundry
Object Place: Johnston, Rhode Island
Dimensions
Overall: x 88.9 cm (56 x 35 in.) Overall (footprint of base): 126 x cm (49 5/8 x 39 7/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Bronze

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Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen
about 1805–06
Joseph Mallord William Turner, English, 1775–1851
Dimensions
148.6 x cm (58 1/2 x 94 3/8 in.)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Accession Number

14. Lesson 4

15. Running Before the Storm
about 1870
Unidentified artist, American
24 x 36 1/4 in.
Oil on canvas
Accession number:

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Baseball on the Beach; frontispiece illustration for Indoor and Outdoor Games (Naigai yûgi hô), vol. 30 of the series The Everyday Encyclopedia (Nichiyô hyakka zensho)
1898 (Meiji 31)
Tomioka Eisen, Japanese, 1864–1905
Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Classification
Prints
Accession Number

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Seventh Plague of Egypt
1823
John Martin, English, 1789–1854
Dimensions
144.1 x 214 cm (56 3/4 x 84 1/4 in.)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Accession Number