Art, literature & history
A Scene in an Historical Play Exhibited on the Chinese Stage
1795
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 23.6 × 35 cm (9 5/16 × 13 3/4 in.) mount: 30.4 × 42.1 cm (11 15/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2022.40.63
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Alexander. A Scene in an Historical Play Exhibited on the Chinese Stage. William Alexander; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Donald Stone. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Scene in an Historical Play Exhibited on the Chinese Stage — William Alexander. 1795.
Medium: watercolor over graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 23.6 × 35 cm (9 5/16 × 13 3/4 in.) mount: 30.4 × 42.1 cm (11 15/16 × 16 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2022.40.63. Gift of Donald Stone.
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.