Art, literature & history
A Widely Expanding Oak Tree
1825/1830
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 23 x 34.8 cm (9 1/16 x 13 11/16 in.) sheet: 24.9 x 36.6 cm (9 13/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.324
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. A Widely Expanding Oak Tree. Carl Wilhelm Kolbe; 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:Carl_Wilhelm_Kolbe,_A_Widely_Expanding_Oak_Tree,_1825-1830,_NGA_153719.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Widely Expanding Oak Tree — Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. 1825/1830.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23 x 34.8 cm (9 1/16 x 13 11/16 in.) sheet: 24.9 x 36.6 cm (9 13/16 x 14 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.324. 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.