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Nile Journey, Tmui of Ptolemy

Elihu Vedder · 1890

Elihu Vedder: American, 1836 - 1923

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Nile Journey, Tmui of Ptolemy

1890

black crayon on green wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Medium
black crayon on green wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 18.8 × 32.5 cm (7 3/8 × 12 13/16 in.)
Collection no.
1979.20.114
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Elihu Vedder. Nile Journey, Tmui of Ptolemy. Elihu Vedder; 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:Elihu_Vedder,_Nile_Journey,_Tmui_of_Ptolemy,_1890,_NGA_57063.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Nile Journey, Tmui of Ptolemy — Elihu Vedder. 1890.

Medium: black crayon on green wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 18.8 × 32.5 cm (7 3/8 × 12 13/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1979.20.114. John Davis Hatch 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.

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Elihu Vedder. Nile Journey, Tmui of Ptolemy. Elihu Vedder; 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:Elihu_Vedder,_Nile_Journey,_Tmui_of_Ptolemy,_1890,_NGA_57063.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.