Art, literature & history
The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond, Virginia
1812
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- hand-colored etching and aquatint on wove paper mounted to heavy wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 27.78 × 37.15 cm (10 15/16 × 14 5/8 in.) plate: 32.23 × 39.85 cm (12 11/16 × 15 11/16 in.) sheet: 34.93 × 41.43 cm (13 3/4 × 16 5/16 in.) support: 44.77 × 52.39 cm (17 5/8 × 20 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.875
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Benjamin Tanner. The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. Benjamin Tanner; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, 1956). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond, Virginia — Benjamin Tanner. 1812.
Medium: hand-colored etching and aquatint on wove paper mounted to heavy wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 27.78 × 37.15 cm (10 15/16 × 14 5/8 in.) plate: 32.23 × 39.85 cm (12 11/16 × 15 11/16 in.) sheet: 34.93 × 41.43 cm (13 3/4 × 16 5/16 in.) support: 44.77 × 52.39 cm (17 5/8 × 20 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.875. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, 1956).
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.