Art, literature & history
Genius with Alphabet
1542
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 4.4 × 7.9 cm (1 3/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.1108
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Sebald Beham. Genius with Alphabet. Sebald Beham; 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:Sebald_Beham,_Genius_with_Alphabet,_1542,_NGA_4326.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Genius with Alphabet — Sebald Beham. 1542.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 4.4 × 7.9 cm (1 3/4 × 3 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.1108. 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.