Letter Written from Alger

ca. 1835

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 9/16 × 10 9/16 in. (34.5 × 26.8 cm)
Collection no.: 1985.1123.85
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville. Letter Written from Alger. Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Letter Written from Alger — Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville. ca. 1835.

Medium: Lithograph. Dimensions: Sheet: 13 9/16 × 10 9/16 in. (34.5 × 26.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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