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[ 0 => '{{Infobox Artwork', 1 => '| image_file = Thomas Cole - Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge - Smithsonian.jpg', 2 => '| alt = Barren coastal landscape shortly after the Biblical Food as seen through the mouth of a cave on land. Noah's Ark is visible floating in the distance. ', 3 => '| image_size = 250px', 4 => '| title = The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge', 5 => '| artist = [[Thomas Cole]]', 6 => '| year = 1829', 7 => '| type = [[Oil painting|Oil]] on [[canvas]]', 8 => '| accession = 1983.40', 9 => '| height_metric = 90.8', 10 => '| width_metric = 121.4', 11 => '| height_imperial = {{frac|35|3|4}}', 12 => '| width_imperial = {{frac|47|3|4}}', 13 => '| metric_unit = cm', 14 => '| imperial_unit = in', 15 => '| city = Washington, D.C.', 16 => '| museum = [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]]', 17 => '}}', 18 => ''''''The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge''''' is an 1829 [[painting]] by English-born American artist [[Thomas Cole]] depicting the aftermath of the [[Great Flood]].', 19 => 'The painting is an 90.8 x 121.4&nbsp;cm [[oil on canvas]]. It is on display at the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].', 20 => false, 21 => '==Background==', 22 => 'Cole collected extensive notes on geology and consulted geologists and other scientists such as [[Benjamin Silliman]] to gather background information on what the world might have looked like after the Biblical Flood.<ref>{{cite book|last=Perry|first=Claire|title=The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century|publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-1-904-832-97-3}}</ref>', 23 => false, 24 => '==Description==', 25 => 'The painting shows a barren rocky coastscape as seen from the viewpoint of a cavern. A waterfall created by the receding waters of the Flood flows towards the sea. Debris such as broken trees, a destroyed mast, and even a skull are seen upon the coast. The land has been striped of soil. The sky outside the cavern is bright and in the distance floats an Ark and a dove flies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pastan|first=Amy|title=Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum|year=1999|publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications|location=New York|isbn=0-8230-0193-8|pages=26|edition=1. publ., 1. print.}}</ref>', 26 => false, 27 => '==Interpretation==', 28 => 'The painting is interpreted as representing rebirth and redemption through destruction.<ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Angela|title=The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875|year=1993|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca, N.Y.|isbn=0-8014-2830-0|edition=1. publ.|page=53}}</ref> The cleansing nature of the Flood is meant to represent America as a "New Eden" free of the abusive power of the European monarchies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pastan|first=Amy|title=Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum|year=1999|publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications|location=New York|isbn=0-8230-0193-8|pages=26|edition=1. publ., 1. print.|quote=For Thomas Cole, this story of the Biblical flood was a veiled reference to his adopted country, the United States. Washed clean of the corruptions of European monarchy, the new democracy awakens to a promising future.}}</ref>', 29 => false, 30 => '==History==', 31 => 'In 1829 and 1831 the painting was on exhibit at the [[National Academy of Design]]. It was subsequently lost until 1974.<ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Angela|title=The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875|year=1993|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca, N.Y.|isbn=0-8014-2830-0|edition=1. publ.|page=54|quote=''Subsiding of the Waters'', exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1829 and again in 1831, was lost throughout most of this century, not coming to light until 1974.}}</ref>', 32 => false, 33 => '==References==', 34 => '<references />', 35 => false, 36 => '==External links==', 37 => '*[http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5080 Collection listing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum]', 38 => false, 39 => '{{DEFAULTSORT:Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, The}}', 40 => '[[Category:Paintings by Thomas Cole]]', 41 => '[[Category:1829 paintings]]', 42 => '[[Category:Paintings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum]]', 43 => '[[Category:Masterpiece Museum]]' ]