Art, literature & history
On the Red Danube - "Bless You, My Children!"
1877
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- wood engraving in black on newsprint, two-page centerfold
- Dimensions
- image: 50.96 × 34.45 cm (20 1/16 × 13 9/16 in.) sheet: 55.25 × 39.69 cm (21 3/4 × 15 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2013.3.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Nast. On the Red Danube - "Bless You, My Children!". Thomas Nast; 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_Nast,_On_the_Red_Danube_-_%22Bless_You,_My_Children!%22,_1877,_NGA_159711.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
On the Red Danube - "Bless You, My Children!" — Thomas Nast. 1877.
Medium: wood engraving in black on newsprint, two-page centerfold.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 50.96 × 34.45 cm (20 1/16 × 13 9/16 in.) sheet: 55.25 × 39.69 cm (21 3/4 × 15 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2013.3.6. Donald and Nancy deLaski 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.