Art, literature & history
Shanties on the Harlem
1881-1882
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in black on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 10.8 × 19.37 cm (4 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.) sheet: 24.13 × 31.43 cm (9 1/2 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.911
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles A. Platt. Shanties on the Harlem. Charles A. Platt; 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:Charles_A._Platt,_Shanties_on_the_Harlem,_1881-1882,_NGA_169593.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Shanties on the Harlem — Charles A. Platt. 1881-1882.
Medium: etching in black on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 10.8 × 19.37 cm (4 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.) sheet: 24.13 × 31.43 cm (9 1/2 × 12 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.911. Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958).
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.