Art, literature & history
Building by a Dam
1850-1860
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite over watercolor on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 13.34 × 21.27 cm (5 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 18.1 × 26.67 cm (7 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.559
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Frederick Kensett. Building by a Dam. John Frederick Kensett; 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:John_Frederick_Kensett,_Building_by_a_Dam,_1850-1860,_NGA_179541.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Building by a Dam — John Frederick Kensett. 1850-1860.
Medium: graphite over watercolor on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 13.34 × 21.27 cm (5 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 18.1 × 26.67 cm (7 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.559. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1948).
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.