Art, literature & history
Hampstead Heath, Evening Light
1800
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink with gray and blue-gray wash over graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 22.2 × 36.7 cm (8 3/4 × 14 7/16 in.) mount: 28.4 × 42 cm (11 3/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2022.40.36
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Francis Towne. Hampstead Heath, Evening Light. Francis Towne; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Donald Stone. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Hampstead Heath, Evening Light — Francis Towne. 1800.
Medium: pen and black ink with gray and blue-gray wash over graphite on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 22.2 × 36.7 cm (8 3/4 × 14 7/16 in.) mount: 28.4 × 42 cm (11 3/16 × 16 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2022.40.36. Gift of Donald Stone.
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.