Art, literature & history
Ruins by a River with a Man in a Boat
1758
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 15.4 × 21.7 cm (6 1/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1974.54.9
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Sandby. Ruins by a River with a Man in a Boat. Paul Sandby; 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:Paul_Sandby,_Ruins_by_a_River_with_a_Man_in_a_Boat,_1758,_NGA_54469.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Ruins by a River with a Man in a Boat — Paul Sandby. 1758.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 15.4 × 21.7 cm (6 1/16 × 8 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1974.54.9. 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.