2-798-616 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Burning of the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1845. The destruction of a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, '...an event that is ascribed to the act of an incendiary...'. The academy '...had a good collection of pictures, some fine pieces of sculpture, and a library...the greater part of its invaluable contents are irreparably lost'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.