Art, literature & history
The Fore Chains
1922
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 24.9 × 17.6 cm (9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 30.9 × 24.3 cm (12 3/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3127
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
George Canning Wales. The Fore Chains. George Canning Wales; 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:George_Canning_Wales,_The_Fore_Chains,_1922,_NGA_6303.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 Fore Chains — George Canning Wales. 1922.
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 24.9 × 17.6 cm (9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 30.9 × 24.3 cm (12 3/16 × 9 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3127. Rosenwald Collection.
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.