Art, literature & history
A Corner of the Colosseum
1820
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 18.2 x 24.9 cm (7 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2000.65.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Friedrich Olivier. A Corner of the Colosseum. Friedrich Olivier; 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:Friedrich_Olivier,_A_Corner_of_the_Colosseum,_1820,_NGA_112091.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Corner of the Colosseum — Friedrich Olivier. 1820.
Medium: pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 18.2 x 24.9 cm (7 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2000.65.5. Gift of The Very Reverend and Mrs. Charles U. Harris.
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.