Art, literature & history
A Bit on Marblehead Neck
1883
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 12 x 30.2 cm (4 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 33.3 x 47.8 cm (13 1/8 x 18 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2002.98.190
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James David Smillie. A Bit on Marblehead Neck. James David Smillie; 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_David_Smillie,_A_Bit_on_Marblehead_Neck,_1883,_NGA_119990.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Bit on Marblehead Neck — James David Smillie. 1883.
Medium: etching in black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12 x 30.2 cm (4 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 33.3 x 47.8 cm (13 1/8 x 18 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2002.98.190. 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.