Art, literature & history
Small Plant Study: a Burdock, Delicate Tufts of Grass at Left
1826/1828
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.9 x 15.7 cm (5 1/16 x 6 3/16 in.) sheet: 14.8 x 17.8 cm (5 13/16 x 7 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.328
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. Small Plant Study: a Burdock, Delicate Tufts of Grass at Left. 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,_Small_Plant_Study_-_a_Burdock,_Delicate_Tufts_of_Grass_at_Left,_1826-1828,_NGA_153723.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Small Plant Study: a Burdock, Delicate Tufts of Grass at Left — Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. 1826/1828.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.9 x 15.7 cm (5 1/16 x 6 3/16 in.) sheet: 14.8 x 17.8 cm (5 13/16 x 7 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.328. 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.