Rotunda Amid Dense Trees, Intriguing and Atmospheric Hudson River School Oil on Linen Painting Fragment, Framed stop sign I think it beautifully captures

I think it beautifully captures the posture

Found in the Hudson River Valley

a small chip to one side of the "pedestal"

living in Greenwich Village until his death in 1879

and early on a popular meeting place for Socialists

Rotunda Amid Dense Trees, Intriguing and Atmospheric Hudson River School Oil on Linen Painting Fragment, Framed stop sign I think it beautifully capturesI find this one super atmospheric and evocative, and a bit mysterious, with this rotunda feeling like a long forgotten place, encircled with overgrowth, but inside of which might be something grand! The painting is 19th century Hudson River School, a fragment salvaged from a larger painting I believe. I opened the frame to see it oil on linen and photographed it both inside and outside the frame, as shown. This one feels to me like inspiration for a