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House by a Pond

Bass Otis · 1819

Bass Otis: American, 1784 - 1861

UnclassifiedUnited States

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  • Gilbert Stuarteditorial inference
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  • Peter Frederick Rothermeleditorial inference
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House by a Pond

1819

lithograph in black on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 9.37 × 12.86 cm (3 11/16 × 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 12.7 × 20.96 cm (5 × 8 1/4 in.)
Collection no.
2015.19.776
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Bass Otis. House by a Pond. Bass Otis; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bass_Otis,_House_by_a_Pond,_1819,_NGA_180876.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

House by a Pond — Bass Otis. 1819.

Medium: lithograph in black on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 9.37 × 12.86 cm (3 11/16 × 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 12.7 × 20.96 cm (5 × 8 1/4 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.776. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, 1952).

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.

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Bass Otis. House by a Pond. Bass Otis; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bass_Otis,_House_by_a_Pond,_1819,_NGA_180876.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.