# @carnegiemuseumofart on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CNfhpbuhi0K
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/75818423-carnegiemuseumofart-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/7fac259761.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-04-10T16:44:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Carnegie Museum of Art (@carnegiemuseumofart) — https://gondola.cc/carnegiemuseumofart

## Caption

Today is the anniversary of the Great Fire in Pittsburgh, which destroyed a third of the city in 1845. Artist William C. Wall witnessed the fire and painted two nearly identical canvases depicting the scene—what differences can you spot between the two?
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Image 1: William C. Wall, View of the Great Fire of Pittsburgh, 1946, Carnegie Museum of Art, Bequest of Charles J. Rosenbloom
Image 2: William C. Wall, View of the Great Fire of Pittsburgh, c. 1946, Carnegie Museum of Art, Gift of Carroll Arrott Taylor and David McLane Taylor, Jr.
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#Pittsburgh #WilliamCWall #CarnegieMuseumofArt

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williamcwall, carnegiemuseumofart, pittsburgh

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