Art, literature & history
The Son and the Donkey
1863
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite on wove paper laid down
- Dimensions
- support: 22.9 × 13.2 cm (9 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 10.9 × 7.1 cm (4 5/16 × 2 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.105.11
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Elihu Vedder. The Son and the Donkey. 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,_The_Son_and_the_Donkey,_1863,_NGA_72904.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Son and the Donkey — Elihu Vedder. 1863.
Medium: graphite on wove paper laid down.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): support: 22.9 × 13.2 cm (9 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 10.9 × 7.1 cm (4 5/16 × 2 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.105.11. 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.