Art, literature & historyLa Scala di Ferro (The Iron Ladder)
1967
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- collage of torn-and-pasted mailed envelope, pasted printed paper, graphite, colored pencil, crayon, pen and ink, and rubber stamp additions on laid Ingres Canson paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 50 x 64.9 cm (19 11/16 x 25 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1986.83.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
La Scala di Ferro (The Iron Ladder) — Saul Steinberg. 1967.
Medium: collage of torn-and-pasted mailed envelope, pasted printed paper, graphite, colored pencil, crayon, pen and ink, and rubber stamp additions on laid Ingres Canson paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 50 x 64.9 cm (19 11/16 x 25 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1986.83.1. Gift of Evelyn and Leonard Lauder.
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.