Art, literature & history
French Fishing Boats off a Rocky Coast
1833
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor and white gouache over graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17.5 x 26.5 cm (6 7/8 x 10 7/16 in.) overall: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1985.33.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Callow. French Fishing Boats off a Rocky Coast. William Callow; 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:William_Callow,_French_Fishing_Boats_off_a_Rocky_Coast,_1833,_NGA_65904.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
French Fishing Boats off a Rocky Coast — William Callow. 1833.
Medium: watercolor and white gouache over graphite on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): Overall: 17.5 x 26.5 cm (6 7/8 x 10 7/16 in.) overall: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1985.33.1. Ailsa Mellon 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.