Midas, Transmuting All into Paper

Provenance

(Andrew Edmunds, London); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Midas, Transmuting All into Paper

Gillray, James

1797

Accession Number

2015.49.1

Medium

etching with publisher's hand-coloring in watercolor on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 35.3 × 24.8 cm (13 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.) | sheet: 40.8 × 29 cm (16 1/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Purchased as an Anonymous Gift