Watchtower on a Cliff with a Stream

1842

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: etching
Dimensions: sheet: 22.2 x 30.9 cm (8 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.) plate: 10.5 x 8 cm (4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
Collection no.: 2010.69.8.a
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Caspar Johann Nepomuk Scheuren. Watchtower on a Cliff with a Stream. Caspar Johann Nepomuk Scheuren; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Watchtower on a Cliff with a Stream — Caspar Johann Nepomuk Scheuren. 1842.

Medium: etching.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 22.2 x 30.9 cm (8 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.) plate: 10.5 x 8 cm (4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2010.69.8.a. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.

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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