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Title
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On a Battlefield
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Actual Title
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?An Interrupted Duel?
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Artist
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Marcus C. Stone
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Type
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Oil on canvas
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Lent By
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the Artist
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Catalog Number
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87
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Catalog Page
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13
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Catalog Description
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Flowers bloom where men have fought and bled. ("I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as were some buried Caesar bled.") But to the mourner there is still sorrow in the air.
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Curators Notes
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Option is "An Interrupted Duel" (c. 1868); few details. Second option is "Roses" from The Atkinson Art Gallery
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Alt-Text
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A woman in a white dress pleads with a man holding her hands as two other men and two women watch outside a rustic house, in a dramatic historical scene with tense body language and expressive faces.
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status
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R. A.
