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Observatory
1890
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink and watercolor over touches of black chalk and graphite heightened with white
- Dimensions
- image (L-shaped): 15.6 x 15.5 cm (6 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.) sheet: 16 x 15.8 cm (6 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.) support: 48.8 x 33.7 cm (19 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1977.6.11
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Themistocles von Eckenbrecher. Observatory. Themistocles von Eckenbrecher; 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:Themistocles_von_Eckenbrecher,_Observatory,_1890,_NGA_56243.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Observatory — Themistocles von Eckenbrecher. 1890.
Medium: pen and black ink and watercolor over touches of black chalk and graphite heightened with white.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image (L-shaped): 15.6 x 15.5 cm (6 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.) sheet: 16 x 15.8 cm (6 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.) support: 48.8 x 33.7 cm (19 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1977.6.11. Gift of Dr. Dieter Erich Meyer.
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.