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The Cape of Pinzon
c. 1838
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brown and black chalk heightened with white chalk and pastel on blue board
- Dimensions
- overall: 40.7 x 35.5 cm (16 x 14 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1980.4.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Vanderlyn. The Cape of Pinzon. John Vanderlyn; 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_Vanderlyn,_The_Cape_of_Pinzon,_c._1838,_NGA_57512.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Cape of Pinzon — John Vanderlyn. c. 1838.
Medium: brown and black chalk heightened with white chalk and pastel on blue board.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 40.7 x 35.5 cm (16 x 14 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1980.4.5. John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund and Avalon 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.