Art, literature & history
Arlington Heights. Die Wacht. Am Potomac.
1871
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- wood engraving in black on newsprint
- Dimensions
- image: 34.61 × 23.18 cm (13 5/8 × 9 1/8 in.) sheet: 40.96 × 28.26 cm (16 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2013.3.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Nast. Arlington Heights. Die Wacht. Am Potomac.. 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,_Arlington_Heights._Die_Wacht._Am_Potomac.,_1871,_NGA_159710.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Arlington Heights. Die Wacht. Am Potomac. — Thomas Nast. 1871.
Medium: wood engraving in black on newsprint.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 34.61 × 23.18 cm (13 5/8 × 9 1/8 in.) sheet: 40.96 × 28.26 cm (16 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2013.3.5. 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.