Art, literature & historyDrop
1948
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- mezzotint on beige Japan paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 23.18 × 30.48 cm (9 1/8 × 12 in.) image: 17.78 × 24.77 cm (7 × 9 3/4 in.) plate: 18.57 × 25.56 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1964.8.739
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Drop — M.C. Escher. 1948.
Medium: mezzotint on beige Japan paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 23.18 × 30.48 cm (9 1/8 × 12 in.) image: 17.78 × 24.77 cm (7 × 9 3/4 in.) plate: 18.57 × 25.56 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1964.8.739. Rosenwald Collection.
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.