In many accounts of artistic practice, miniature-scaled works are assigned subsidiary
roles, valued as mere precursors to later, larger, and more significant compositions.
Subverting familiar expectations in the history of the landscape genre, the more than
100 paintings, drawings, and photographs included in This Drop of Earth: American
Landscape Miniatures, 1840-1890 demonstrate the multifaceted ways small pictures
were big business in nineteenth-century America, related to but independent from their
larger siblings.

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