Market Square, Providence, Rhode Island, During the Great September Gale, 1815, 1815. This anonymous drawing combines a meticulous depiction of actual buildings with a wonderfully abstract rendering of waves and weather effects. The artist was led to stretch his artistic abilities because of a bizarre and memorable event: a hurricane that washed ships into the streets of downtown Providence in September of 1815.

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Size: 5184px × 3892px
Photo credit: © Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 19th, america, art, black, century, cleveland, crayon, drawing, graphite, heritage, incised, museum, pastel, places, scraped, stylus, unknown