Art, literature & history
Project d'une Grotte (Plan for a Grotto)
c. 1755/1760
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 26.7 x 19.9 cm (10 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 40.3 x 25 cm (15 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1993.54.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Johann Esaias Nilson. Project d'une Grotte (Plan for a Grotto). Johann Esaias Nilson; 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:Johann_Esaias_Nilson,_Project_d%27une_Grotte_(Plan_for_a_Grotto),_c._1755-1760,_NGA_84082.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Project d'une Grotte (Plan for a Grotto) — Johann Esaias Nilson. c. 1755/1760.
Medium: etching and engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 26.7 x 19.9 cm (10 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 40.3 x 25 cm (15 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1993.54.3. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.