Why it matters
An architect lies on top of a giant column above a panorama of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Gothic buildings. The client, architect Ithiel Town, refused it for being 'almost exclusively architectural'.
Did you know?
- Cole painted it in 1840 in only five weeks.
- Cole kept it until his death.
- The Toledo Museum of Art acquired it in 1949.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Architect's Dream (CC BY-SA 4.0).
