left: David Drake, Doubled-handled Jug (Lewis J. Miles Factory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, South Carolina), 1840, stoneware with alkaline glaze, 44.13 x 35.24 cm (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) right: Asher B. Durand, Progress (The Advance of Civilization), 1853, oil on canvas, 148.43 x 208.92 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)