Art, literature & history
Right Hand Holding Short Rod
1847
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 10.5 × 21.3 cm (4 1/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1979.20.48
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Horatio Greenough. Right Hand Holding Short Rod. Horatio Greenough; 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:Horatio_Greenough,_Right_Hand_Holding_Short_Rod,_1847,_NGA_56996.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Right Hand Holding Short Rod — Horatio Greenough. 1847.
Medium: graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 10.5 × 21.3 cm (4 1/8 × 8 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1979.20.48. John Davis Hatch 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.