Art, literature & history
A Ruined Castle on a Lake
1881
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 14 x 22.9 cm (5 1/2 x 9 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.52.107
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Leighton Leitch. A Ruined Castle on a Lake. William Leighton Leitch; 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_Leighton_Leitch,_A_Ruined_Castle_on_a_Lake,_1881,_NGA_76083.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Ruined Castle on a Lake — William Leighton Leitch. 1881.
Medium: watercolor over graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 14 x 22.9 cm (5 1/2 x 9 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.52.107. Gift of William B. O'Neal.
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.