Art, literature & history
The Dawn of Creation
1830s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brush and black ink with scratching out
- Dimensions
- sheet: 25.6 x 31.6 cm (10 1/16 x 12 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2009.79.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Samuel Jackson. The Dawn of Creation. Samuel Jackson; 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:Samuel_Jackson,_The_Dawn_of_Creation,_1830s,_NGA_144846.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 Dawn of Creation — Samuel Jackson. 1830s.
Medium: brush and black ink with scratching out.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 25.6 x 31.6 cm (10 1/16 x 12 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2009.79.1. 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.