found: Chapman, J.G. The American drawing-book, 1851: p. 208 (T. Cole)
found: Groce, G.C. The N.Y. Hist. Soc. dict. of artists in Amer., 1957 (Cole, Thomas; landscape, portrait, and religious painter; b. Feb. 1, 1801; d. Feb. 11 or 12, 1848)
found: Britannica Micro. (Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848; American Romanic landscape painter who was a founder of the Hudson River school; d. Feb. 11, 1848, Catskill, N.Y.)
found: United States. Thomas Cole National Historic Site Act, 1999, Public Law 106-146: p. 1 (An Act to Establish the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in the State of New York as an Affiliated Area of the National Park System; the Hudson River school of landscape painting was inspired by Thomas Cole)