Art, literature & history
Ancient Tower at a Water Mill
1759
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in sepia
- Dimensions
- sheet: 11.4 x 15 cm (4 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.) mount: 16.7 x 23 cm (6 9/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2011.139.69
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. Ancient Tower at a Water Mill. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; 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:Jean-Jacques_de_Boissieu,_Ancient_Tower_at_a_Water_Mill,_1759,_NGA_156090.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Ancient Tower at a Water Mill — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1759.
Medium: etching and drypoint in sepia.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 11.4 x 15 cm (4 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.) mount: 16.7 x 23 cm (6 9/16 x 9 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2011.139.69. Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg.
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.