The Thoughtful Captain

1822

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/4 x 8 9/16 in. (35 x 21.7 cm)
Collection no.: 1992.1065
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Johann Gottfried Schadow. The Thoughtful Captain. Johann Gottfried Schadow; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Clifford A. Furst Bequest, by exchange, 1992. 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

The Thoughtful Captain — Johann Gottfried Schadow. 1822.

Medium: Lithograph. Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/4 x 8 9/16 in. (35 x 21.7 cm).

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

Credit line: Clifford A. Furst Bequest, by exchange, 1992.

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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