Art, literature & history
This is my Beloved Son
1802
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- plate: 31.43 × 22.23 cm (12 3/8 × 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 32.7 × 23.81 cm (12 7/8 × 9 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1980.45.1515
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Benjamin West. This is my Beloved Son. Benjamin West; 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:Benjamin_West,_This_is_my_Beloved_Son,_1802,_NGA_59260.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
This is my Beloved Son — Benjamin West. 1802.
Medium: lithograph.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 31.43 × 22.23 cm (12 3/8 × 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 32.7 × 23.81 cm (12 7/8 × 9 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1980.45.1515. Rosenwald 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.