Art, literature & history
Moonlight at Low Tide
c. 1885
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint in black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.7 x 19.6 cm (5 x 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 22.8 x 33 cm (9 x 13 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2002.98.168
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Craig Nicoll. Moonlight at Low Tide. James Craig Nicoll; 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:James_Craig_Nicoll,_Moonlight_at_Low_Tide,_c._1885,_NGA_119971.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Moonlight at Low Tide — James Craig Nicoll. c. 1885.
Medium: etching and aquatint in black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.7 x 19.6 cm (5 x 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 22.8 x 33 cm (9 x 13 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2002.98.168. Gift of Jacob Kainen.
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.