Art, literature & history
Lydia at Afternoon Tea
1882
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- softground etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
- plate: 13.97 × 19.84 cm (5 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1946.21.86
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Mary Cassatt. Lydia at Afternoon Tea. Mary Cassatt; 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:Mary_Cassatt,_Lydia_at_Afternoon_Tea,_1882,_NGA_33344.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Lydia at Afternoon Tea — Mary Cassatt. 1882.
Medium: softground etching and aquatint.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 13.97 × 19.84 cm (5 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1946.21.86. 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.