Art, literature & history
Neptune and the Pillars of Hercules
1634
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.5 x 16.4 cm (4 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 12 x 17.9 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1994.70.13
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Willem Basse. Neptune and the Pillars of Hercules. Willem Basse; 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:Willem_Basse,_Neptune_and_the_Pillars_of_Hercules,_1634,_NGA_90939.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Neptune and the Pillars of Hercules — Willem Basse. 1634.
Medium: etching and engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.5 x 16.4 cm (4 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 12 x 17.9 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.70.13. David K. E. Bruce 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.