Art, literature & history
Columbus Breaking the Egg
1752
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 19.8 × 20.2 cm (7 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.5.103
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Hogarth. Columbus Breaking the Egg. William Hogarth; 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_Hogarth,_Columbus_Breaking_the_Egg,_1752,_NGA_30449.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Columbus Breaking the Egg — William Hogarth. 1752.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 19.8 × 20.2 cm (7 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.5.103. 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.