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Painting of a marble quarry with workers, white stone blocks, a brick factory with smokestack, and forested hills.

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A painting titled A Marble Quarry by James Hope, dated 1851, shows a large workshop with a brick smokestack beside a quarry floor strewn with white marble blocks. Workers haul stone with horse-drawn carts and rail cars while others labor in the pit below, set against forested mountains and a pale sky.

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Date

1851

Medium

Painting

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

License

Public domain

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