Art, literature & historyTightrope Dancer
1886-1970
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- color etching and color aquatint printed in grey, blue and brown-green on wove cream paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 29.7 × 22.7 cm (11 11/16 × 8 15/16 in.) sheet: 43.7 × 33 cm (17 3/16 × 13 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.69
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Tightrope Dancer — August Wilhelm Dressler. 1886-1970.
Medium: color etching and color aquatint printed in grey, blue and brown-green on wove cream paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 29.7 × 22.7 cm (11 11/16 × 8 15/16 in.) sheet: 43.7 × 33 cm (17 3/16 × 13 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.69. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.
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.