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City Gates
City Gates
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

City Gates

Artist Joseph Lyman (American, 1843 - 1913)
Dateundated
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFrame: 28 3/4 x 43 x 5 1/8 in. (73 x 109.2 x 13 cm)
Sight: 15 1/2 x 29 3/4 in. (39.4 x 75.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineThe Florida Art Collection, Gift of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers
Object number2020.18.280
Collections
Visual DescriptionLandscape of part of the fortified coquina wall that once surrounded the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida. To the left, the ancient walls of the Castillo de San Marcos and the Matanzas River are visible in the background.
A framed vertical painting depicting a sloped grey stone wall on the right, topped with a small brown corner turret. The left side shows distant trees, a patch of grass, and a single bird flying in a cloudy sky. Part of the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida.
The Fort
Sydney Richmond Burleigh
undated
The 17th-century Spanish stone fortress Castillo de San Marcos on the St. Johns River in St. Augustine, Florida. Figures stand on the shore with a small boat while the fort looms in the background and a cloudy sky overhead.
Castillo de San Marcos
Louis Comfort Tiffany
1885
Landscape of coquina watchtower Fort Matanzas on a barrier island along the Matanzas River, surrounded by salt marshes and barrier islands on the coast of St. Augustine, Florida. The watchtower sits in the center of the composition on the horizon line. The upper half of the painting is comprised of the sky, with a sliver of coastline to the right of the watchtower which is framed by palms and other native trees. In the foreground is a lush expanse of grasses among the dunes.
Old Watchtower at St. Augustine
Thomas Moran
1881
Fort at Matanzas, Florida
Fort at Matanzas, Florida
Frank Henry Shapleigh
1894
Four aerialists fly over the dining room of the historic Ringling Hotel in Sarasota, Florida. The performers appear high above the audience consisting of other circus performers and diners. Paintings line the walls. Columns support a walkway above.
Saturday Night at the Ringling Hotel
Everett Shinn
1949
A large hanging scroll, ink, ink wash and slight color on paper, mounted as a two-panel folding screen depicting a walled city set in a mountainous landscape, some smaller, more modest dwellings outside the walls in the foreground.
Screen of a Walled City
성시도 병풍
城市圖屛風
Korean Artist 작자미상 作者未詳
late 19th-early 20th century
Gates of City, St. Augustine
Gates of City, St. Augustine
Frank Hamilton Taylor
1880
City Gates, St. Augustine
City Gates, St. Augustine
Frank Henry Shapleigh
1886
St. Augustine City Gates
St. Augustine City Gates
Gustave Adolph Hoffman
1906
City Gates
City Gates
M. A. Phipps
undated
Dachau, Execution Range and Blood Ditch
Dachau, Execution Range and Blood Ditch
Andrea Robbins and Max Becher
1994
Impressionist scene of the Hillsborough Riverfront through Tampa, Florida, with the ornate Victorian gingerbread and Moorish minarets, domes, and cupolas of the historic Tampa Bay Hotel in the upper left. Boats carry figures along the waterway and a bridge spans the river.
Tampa, Florida
Reynolds Beal
1914

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