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Waiting for a Shot

"Waiting for a Shot" is a dramatic landscape scene dominated by a vast, open plain engulfed in a raging prairie wildfire.

Waiting for a Shot, 1869, Oil on canvas 12 × 36 inches (30.5 × 91.4 cm), Robert Seldon Duncanson (American, 1821–1872), The Middleton Family Collection

Waiting for a Shot | Philadelphia Museum of Art