Christopher Columbus

1816 · Print

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

Washington, D.C., United States

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

In this state since: Oct 5, 2026
Source: The museum's own collection data

On the map Museum page

Particulars

Accession number: S/NPG.77.136.1.a

What it shows

Science and Technology Explorers Illustration Ship Navigator Man Portrait

In the catalog

Prints Engraving Neoclassicism Romanticism 19th century

Sources

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian): the museum's own open data · fetched 19 hours ago
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All works

Henry Clay

19th century · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums

John Jay

c. 1801 · National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

"Him Pensive on the lonely beach she found, with streaming eyes in briny torrents drown'd, and inly pining for his native shore", from The Odyssey of Homer, Book V. Pa. 111. Published by W. Durell.

1812 · Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Art of Writing by John Jenkins, Frontispiece

1813 · Smithsonian American Art Museum

George Clinton

1816 · National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

George Washington

1817 · National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

Andrew Jackson

1819 · National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

Elias Hicks Bookplate

ca. 1820 · Smithsonian American Art Museum

Neighbors at National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

Museum page

Gardner Cox

Robert F. Kennedy, 1968

Paolo Garretto

Babe Ruth, 1929

Laura Wheeler Waring

Alice Dunbar Nelson, 1927

Philip Alexius de László

Pauline Morton Sabin, 1926

Philip Alexius de László

Adolph Ochs, 1926

Moses Wainer Dykaar

Samuel Gompers, 1924