Art, literature & historyDumfries
1770–82
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate tone; second state of five
- Dimensions
- Plate: 3 3/16 × 7 7/8 in. (8.1 × 20 cm) Sheet: 3 5/8 × 8 9/16 in. (9.2 × 21.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 59.508.34
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Dumfries — John Clerk, of Eldin. 1770–82.
Medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in brown ink with plate tone; second state of five. Dimensions: Plate: 3 3/16 × 7 7/8 in. (8.1 × 20 cm) Sheet: 3 5/8 × 8 9/16 in. (9.2 × 21.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1958.
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.