# Reward of Merit

- By: John Cheney (American, 1801 - 1885)
- Date: 1828
- Medium: etched copper plate
- Classification: Technical Material
- Dimensions: plate: 9.84 × 15.56 cm (3 7/8 × 6 1/8 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.169534.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/f77de9a1-fcc2-4e7f-a807-04b62ff4375e/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)