Art, literature & history
The Land of Cockaigne
1564
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 40.7 x 53.6 cm (16 x 21 1/8 in.) sheet: 43.2 x 65.3 cm (17 x 25 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1964.8.1349
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Niccolò Nelli. The Land of Cockaigne. Niccolò Nelli; 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:Niccol%C3%B2_Nelli,_The_Land_of_Cockaigne,_1564,_NGA_48501.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Land of Cockaigne — Niccolò Nelli. 1564.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 40.7 x 53.6 cm (16 x 21 1/8 in.) sheet: 43.2 x 65.3 cm (17 x 25 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1964.8.1349. 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.