Art, literature & history
Cliffs Overhanging a River Gorge near Sorrento (recto)
1823
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite and brown wash on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 41.9 × 28.5 cm (16 1/2 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2014.62.1.a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Johann Joachim Faber. Cliffs Overhanging a River Gorge near Sorrento (recto). Johann Joachim Faber; 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_Joachim_Faber,_Cliffs_Overhanging_a_River_Gorge_near_Sorrento_(recto),_1823,_NGA_164353.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Cliffs Overhanging a River Gorge near Sorrento (recto) — Johann Joachim Faber. 1823.
Medium: graphite and brown wash on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 41.9 × 28.5 cm (16 1/2 × 11 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2014.62.1.a. 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.