Art, literature & history
Limbs of the Law
1799
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- hand-colored etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
- sheet: 35 × 24.5 cm (13 3/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1945.5.327
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
George Moutard Woodward. Limbs of the Law. George Moutard Woodward; 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_Moutard_Woodward,_Limbs_of_the_Law,_1799,_NGA_31105.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Limbs of the Law — George Moutard Woodward. 1799.
Medium: hand-colored etching and aquatint.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 35 × 24.5 cm (13 3/4 × 9 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1945.5.327. 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.