Art, literature & history
A Maiden Embraced by a Knight in Armor
1838
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 25.5 x 35.9 cm (10 1/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.52.77
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Sir George Hayter. A Maiden Embraced by a Knight in Armor. Sir George Hayter; 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:Sir_George_Hayter,_A_Maiden_Embraced_by_a_Knight_in_Armor,_1838,_NGA_76051.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Maiden Embraced by a Knight in Armor — Sir George Hayter. 1838.
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, on brown wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 25.5 x 35.9 cm (10 1/16 x 14 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.52.77. Gift of William B. O'Neal.
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.