Art, literature & history
Shipwreck on a Rocky Shore
1819
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Plate: 4 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (11.5 × 15 cm) Sheet: 5 3/8 × 7 1/2 in. (13.6 × 19.1 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2010.277
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Johan Christian Dahl. Shipwreck on a Rocky Shore. Johan Christian Dahl; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Adrian T. Eeles Gift, 2010. 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
Shipwreck on a Rocky Shore — Johan Christian Dahl. 1819.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 4 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (11.5 × 15 cm) Sheet: 5 3/8 × 7 1/2 in. (13.6 × 19.1 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Purchase, Adrian T. Eeles Gift, 2010.
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.