Art, literature & history
Breaking Up of the Agamemnon
1870
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching (copper) in dark brown
- Dimensions
- sheet: 26.2 × 48.5 cm (10 5/16 × 19 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1964.18.8
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Francis Seymour Haden. Breaking Up of the Agamemnon. Francis Seymour Haden; 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:Francis_Seymour_Haden,_Breaking_Up_of_the_Agamemnon,_1870,_NGA_50238.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Breaking Up of the Agamemnon — Francis Seymour Haden. 1870.
Medium: etching (copper) in dark brown.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 26.2 × 48.5 cm (10 5/16 × 19 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1964.18.8. Gift of the Estate of John Ellerton Lodge.
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.