Art, literature & history
Guinea Hen
c. 1800
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- wood engraving on China paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 15 x 12 cm (5 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2002.98.79
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Bewick. Guinea Hen. Thomas Bewick; 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:Thomas_Bewick,_Guinea_Hen,_c._1800,_NGA_119874.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Guinea Hen — Thomas Bewick. c. 1800.
Medium: wood engraving on China paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 15 x 12 cm (5 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2002.98.79. Gift of Jacob Kainen.
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.