Art, literature & history
The Cannon
c. 1641
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 8.8 x 14.2 cm (3 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.) sheet: 18.6 x 29.2 cm (7 5/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1985.3.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Stefano Della Bella. The Cannon. Stefano Della Bella; 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:Stefano_Della_Bella,_The_Cannon,_c._1641,_NGA_65790.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 Cannon — Stefano Della Bella. c. 1641.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 8.8 x 14.2 cm (3 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.) sheet: 18.6 x 29.2 cm (7 5/16 x 11 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1985.3.1. 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.