“I think that having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want” wrote Andy Warhol. At the beginning of the 1800s, a very young Thomas Cole would have surely appreciated this statement. Thomas Cole was born in Bolton, near Manchester, in the midst of the industrial revolution. The city in which he grew up was extremely polluted and increasingly threatened by factory openings and by the general discontent that the lack of jobs […]

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