Art, literature & history
Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day"
1850s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash and white and cream gouache over graphite, with parts of the distant mountains drawn with a stylus, on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 9.4 x 8.5 cm (3 11/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2009.70.116
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Myles Birket Foster. Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day". Myles Birket Foster; 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:Myles_Birket_Foster,_Illustration_for_Longfellow%27s_%22The_Rainy_Day%22,_1850s,_NGA_143659.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day" — Myles Birket Foster. 1850s.
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash and white and cream gouache over graphite, with parts of the distant mountains drawn with a stylus, on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 9.4 x 8.5 cm (3 11/16 x 3 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2009.70.116. Joseph F. McCrindle 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.