| Size | 9" x 12" |
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Check the listing for details. Thomas Cole : "The Return" (1837) - Giclee Fine Art Print. Condition: New. Listed at 26.99 USD. In 1836 William Paterson Van Rensselaer commissioned Thomas Cole to produce a pair canvases representing morning and evening. The Departure, set in summer, depicts a lord leading a detachment of knights on some valiant crusade. The Return, an autumn landscape, shows him being carried to church on a stretcher, trailed by a lone escort and his riderless horse. The two paintings were well-received. A critic for the New-York Mirror offered the following praise: .