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Father and Son

Elihu Vedder · c. 1859

Elihu Vedder: American, 1836 - 1923

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Father and Son

c. 1859

graphite on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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graphite on wove paper
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sheet: 8.5 × 11.6 cm (3 3/8 × 4 9/16 in.)
Collection no.
1991.105.14
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Elihu Vedder. Father and Son. 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,_Father_and_Son,_c._1859,_NGA_72907.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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Father and Son — Elihu Vedder. c. 1859.

Medium: graphite on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 8.5 × 11.6 cm (3 3/8 × 4 9/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.105.14. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Borghi, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art.

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. Father and Son. 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,_Father_and_Son,_c._1859,_NGA_72907.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.