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A Sheep Resting
c. 1800/1810
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite with watercolor and green crayon on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 14 x 22 cm (5 1/2 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.52.190
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Ward. A Sheep Resting. James Ward; 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_Ward,_A_Sheep_Resting,_c._1800-1810,_NGA_76180.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 Sheep Resting — James Ward. c. 1800/1810.
Medium: graphite with watercolor and green crayon on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 14 x 22 cm (5 1/2 x 8 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.52.190. Gift of William B. O'Neal.
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.