Art, literature & history
Nile Journey, Colossi of Memnon
1890
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- colored chalk on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20.32 × 32.7 cm (8 × 12 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2018.18.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Elihu Vedder. Nile Journey, Colossi of Memnon. Elihu Vedder; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Richard Spear and Athena Tacha. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Nile Journey, Colossi of Memnon — Elihu Vedder. 1890.
Medium: colored chalk on blue wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 20.32 × 32.7 cm (8 × 12 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2018.18.3. Gift of Richard Spear and Athena Tacha.
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.