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The Recording Angel

Master RG · 1542

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The Recording Angel

1542

etching · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Medium
etching
Dimensions
sheet: 16.3 × 9 cm (6 7/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
Collection no.
1973.54.9
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By the artist
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CC0 1.0License details

Master RG. The Recording Angel. Master RG; 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:Master_RG,_The_Recording_Angel,_1542,_NGA_54026.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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The Recording Angel — Master RG. 1542.

Medium: etching.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 16.3 × 9 cm (6 7/16 × 3 9/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1973.54.9. 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.

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Master RG. The Recording Angel. Master RG; 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:Master_RG,_The_Recording_Angel,_1542,_NGA_54026.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.