Art, literature & history
Young Man Writing by Lamplight
1784
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Collection no.
- 1950.2.13
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Daniel Chodowiecki. Young Man Writing by Lamplight. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki; 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:Daniel_Nikolaus_Chodowiecki,_Young_Man_Writing_by_Lamplight,_1784,_NGA_37538.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Young Man Writing by Lamplight — Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki. 1784.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1950.2.13. Anonymous gift in memory of Charles B. Hoyt.
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.