Art, literature & history
Boating Party in an Underground Cave
1794
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint printed in brown on wove paper, mounted on an album sheet with a separate engraved text plate
- Dimensions
- image: 51.2 x 68 cm (20 3/16 x 26 3/4 in.) sheet: 51.4 x 68.1 cm (20 1/4 x 26 13/16 in.) overall (text plate): 7.8 x 68.1 cm (3 1/16 x 26 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2001.78.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Joseph Fischer. Boating Party in an Underground Cave. Joseph Fischer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Boating Party in an Underground Cave — Joseph Fischer. 1794.
Medium: etching and aquatint printed in brown on wove paper, mounted on an album sheet with a separate engraved text plate.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 51.2 x 68 cm (20 3/16 x 26 3/4 in.) sheet: 51.4 x 68.1 cm (20 1/4 x 26 13/16 in.) overall (text plate): 7.8 x 68.1 cm (3 1/16 x 26 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2001.78.1. 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.