Art, literature & history
Sheep Ditch (Der Schafgraben)
1843
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching with drypoint on Japan paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 16.83 × 23.18 cm (6 5/8 × 9 1/8 in.) sheet: 29.53 × 36.83 cm (11 5/8 × 14 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.3540
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adolph Menzel. Sheep Ditch (Der Schafgraben). Adolph Menzel; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Sheep Ditch (Der Schafgraben) — Adolph Menzel. 1843.
Medium: etching with drypoint on Japan paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 16.83 × 23.18 cm (6 5/8 × 9 1/8 in.) sheet: 29.53 × 36.83 cm (11 5/8 × 14 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.3540. Corcoran Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.