Art, literature & history
Shoe, Herring, and Book
1833
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 8.89 × 17.78 cm (3 1/2 × 7 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2018.44.45
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
George Loring Brown. Shoe, Herring, and Book. George Loring Brown; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Shoe, Herring, and Book — George Loring Brown. 1833.
Medium: watercolor on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 8.89 × 17.78 cm (3 1/2 × 7 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2018.44.45. Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts.
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.