Art, literature & history
The Great Flood
1765
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite on vellum
- Dimensions
- image: 13.4 x 8.9 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1942.9.855
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Eisen. The Great Flood. Charles Eisen; 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_Eisen,_The_Great_Flood,_1765,_NGA_2015.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Great Flood — Charles Eisen. 1765.
Medium: graphite on vellum.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 13.4 x 8.9 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1942.9.855. Widener 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.