Art, literature & history
View of the Acropolis
1890
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink and watercolor over black chalk and touches of graphite
- Dimensions
- Overall: 16.2 x 26.5 cm (6 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.) support: 33.7 x 48.8 cm (13 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1977.6.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Themistocles von Eckenbrecher. View of the Acropolis. 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,_View_of_the_Acropolis,_1890,_NGA_56233.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
View of the Acropolis — Themistocles von Eckenbrecher. 1890.
Medium: pen and black ink and watercolor over black chalk and touches of graphite.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): Overall: 16.2 x 26.5 cm (6 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.) support: 33.7 x 48.8 cm (13 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1977.6.1. 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.