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An art conservator holds a vacuum nozzle on a piece of artwork.

Caring for an American Art Treasure

A peek into the world of conservation and the meticulous care of James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly.

Online Gallery for Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture

A portrait of a man sitting.

Friedrich Georg Weitsch’s Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859)

A portrait of a man sitting.

Rembrandt Peale’s Thomas Jefferson

A map

Copy after Alexander von Humboldt’s General Chart of the Kingdom of New Spain between Parallels of 16 & 38° N., from Materials in Mexico at the Commencement of year of 1804

A portrait of a man sitting.

Charles Willson Peale’s Self-Portrait with Mastodon Bone

A drawing of a room.

Charles Willson Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale’s The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale’s Museum

A painting of a man holding a curtain to another room.

Charles Willson Peale’s The Artist in His Museum

A photo of a mastodon skeleton.

Skeleton of the Mastodon

a scene in a painting where they are lifting up a mastodon.

Charles Willson Peale’s Exhumation of the Mastodon

A portrait of a man.

Charles Willson Peale’s Portrait of Baron von Humboldt

A portrait of a man.

Charles Willson Peale’s Portrait of Meriwether Lewis

A portrait of a man.

Charles Willson Peale’s Portrait of William Clark

a drawing of a mountain.

Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland’s Géographie des plantes Équinoxiales: Tableau physique des Andes et Pays voisins, from Essai sur la géographie des plantes

a natural bridge

Frederic Edwin Church’s The Natural Bridge, Virginia

A painting of a waterfall

Frederic Edwin Church’s Niagara

A painting of a waterfall

Frederic Edwin Church’s Horseshoe Falls

A painting of a waterfall

Frederic Edwin Church’s The Falls of Tequendama, Near Bogotá, New Grenada

A sketch of a waterfall

Frederic Edwin Church’s Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Cotopaxi

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Mount Chimborazo through Rising Mist and Clouds

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Mount Chimborazo at Sunset

A painting of a mountain

Frederic Edwin Church’s Study for “The Heart of the Andes"

A painting of clouds

Frederic Edwin Church’s Clouds Over Olana

A painting of a valley with a lake.

Albert Bierstadt’s Valley of the Yosemite

A painting of a waterfall

Albert Bierstadt’s Cho-Looke, The Yosemite Fall

A photo of trees and a waterfall

Carleton E. Watkins and Isaiah West Taber’s Yosemite Falls

A photo of water cascading through trees.

Carleton E. Watkins’s Cascade, Nevada Falls, Yosemite, California

A photograph of a man

Unidentified photographer’s John C. Frémont with “ Fremont and Freedom” banner

A sculpture of a man

John Quincy Adams Ward’s The Freedman

A sculpture of two men

John Rogers’s The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp

A painting of a house.

Eastman Johnson’s The Old Mount Vernon

A painting with many figures talking.

Alexandre Damien Manceau’s Travellers Meeting Minatarre Indians near Fort Clark

A painting of a dance among Native Americans.

Alexandre Damien Manceau’s Bison Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of Their Medicine Lodge in Mih-Tutta-Hankush

A painting of a mountain ledge.

Charles Beyer’s View of the Stone Walls on the Upper Missouri

A painting of a man dancing.

Louis René Lucien Rollet’s Pehriska-Ruhpa, Moennitarri Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Dance

A painting of a man

Johann Hürlimann’s Mató-Tópe, a Mandan Chief

A drawing of two men fighting.

Mató-Tópe’s Battle with a Cheyenne Chief

A painting of a man

George Catlin’s Máh-to-tóh-pa, Four Bears, Second Chief, in Full Dress

A portrait of a man

George Catlin’s Shon-ta-yi-ga, Little Wolf, a Famous Warrior

A painting of an interior room with people

Karl Girardet’s Danse d'indiens Iowas devant le roi Louis-Phillipe aux Tuileries (Dance of the Iowa Indians before the King Louis-Phillipe at the Tuileries)

A room with many framed artworks on the walls.

Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre

A portrait of a man sitting.

Rembrandt Peale’s Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt

A man in a library.

After Eduard Hildebrandt’s Humboldt in His Library

A portrait of a man sitting.

Henri-Joseph Johns’s James Smithson

A bust of a man

Henry Berger’s Bust of Humboldt

A globe

Newton & Son’s Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Globe

A room with men and a globe

Daniel Huntington’s The Atlantic Cable Projectors

A painting of the Northern lights

Frederic Edwin Church’s Aurora Borealis