Art, literature & history
The Lamps of God
1922
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink over graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions
- image: 26.99 x 70.17 cm (10 5/8 x 27 5/8 in.) sheet: 29.53 x 31.75 cm (11 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2008.128.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Winsor McCay. The Lamps of God. Winsor McCay; 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:Winsor_McCay,_The_Lamps_of_God,_1922,_NGA_142160.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Lamps of God — Winsor McCay. 1922.
Medium: pen and black ink over graphite on paperboard.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 26.99 x 70.17 cm (10 5/8 x 27 5/8 in.) sheet: 29.53 x 31.75 cm (11 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2008.128.4. Gift of the Moniz Family.
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.