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The Nile—Evening

Henry Bacon · 1905-1911

Henry Bacon: American, 1839 - 1912

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The Nile—Evening

1905-1911

watercolor over graphite on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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watercolor over graphite on wove paper
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sheet: 47.63 × 92.39 cm (18 3/4 × 36 3/8 in.)
Collection no.
2015.19.271
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By the artist
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CC0 1.0License details

Henry Bacon. The Nile—Evening. Henry Bacon; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1913). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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The Nile—Evening — Henry Bacon. 1905-1911.

Medium: watercolor over graphite on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 47.63 × 92.39 cm (18 3/4 × 36 3/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.271. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1913).

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.

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Henry Bacon. The Nile—Evening. Henry Bacon; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1913). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.