An additional Embarkation of Ulysses is in the collection of the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Painted after the print source A City in Ancient Greece by J.W. Appleton, published 1840. Illustrated in Black, Mary Erastus Salisbury Field: 1805 - 1900 (Springfield, MA, 1984), p. 31, fig. 31, cat. no. 69.

permeation of classicism and Biblical culture throughout American society -- Isrealites in Egypt or Passage of the Red Sea drama produced in New York in 1842, when Field is listed as a painter in that city,; Minerva Rooms exhibition space; Thomas Cole Course of Empire a vision of America according to Biblical parable; painted two known oils of Emb. of Ul as well as a pencil sketch; came at a time when Field was changing his listing in the NYC DIrectory from "portrait painter" to "artist" suggesting he may have been attempting to expand his range an possibly clientele at this point (p. 31, Black); second version sold in these rooms in ----, this painting represents a third and heretofore unknown version of the painting; student of Samuel Morse; purpose of art for larger social change -- socialist realism of its time? (Black quotation, p. 42); subjects of historical paintings ranged from Egyptian to Biblical to glorification of America