Art, literature & history
Study for "Astronomy"
1892
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- charcoal with colored chalk on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 28.89 × 33.02 cm (11 3/8 × 13 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.839.a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Elihu Vedder. Study for "Astronomy". Elihu Vedder; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1955). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Study for "Astronomy" — Elihu Vedder. 1892.
Medium: charcoal with colored chalk on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 28.89 × 33.02 cm (11 3/8 × 13 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.839.a. Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1955).
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.