Cole's+Paintings

Look at the following paintings by Thomas Cole and then answer the questions below.

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__** ·  Which objects or figures appear in all of the paintings?  ·  Which objects or figures only appear in one of the paintings? Which painting do these objects and figures appear?  ·  These paintings can be viewed as individual works of art or as a part of an allegorically series. What do you think these paintings represent allegorically?  ·  For the painting you are assigned, decide what __each__ object or figure in the painting might symbolically represent.
 * __Answer each these questions based on the four paintings.