Art, literature & history
Butterfly Hunting
1806
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- hand-colored etching
- Dimensions
- image: 18.1 x 23.7 cm (7 1/8 x 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 23 x 28.5 cm (9 1/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1945.5.890
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Rowlandson. Butterfly Hunting. Thomas Rowlandson; 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_Rowlandson,_Butterfly_Hunting,_1806,_NGA_31670.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Butterfly Hunting — Thomas Rowlandson. 1806.
Medium: hand-colored etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 18.1 x 23.7 cm (7 1/8 x 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 23 x 28.5 cm (9 1/16 x 11 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1945.5.890. Rosenwald Collection.
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.