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The Fencing Lesson [recto]
c. 1847-1849
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20 × 26.99 cm (7 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.3018.a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Richard Caton Woodville. The Fencing Lesson [recto]. Richard Caton Woodville; 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:Richard_Caton_Woodville,_The_Fencing_Lesson_(recto),_c._1847-1849,_NGA_197716.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 Fencing Lesson [recto] — Richard Caton Woodville. c. 1847-1849.
Medium: graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 20 × 26.99 cm (7 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.3018.a. Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Estate of William Woodville, VIII).
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.