# A Difficult Line from Horace

- By: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British, born in the Netherlands, 1836 - 1912)
- Date: 1881
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 15.24 × 23.5 cm (6 × 9 1/4 in.) ; framed: 34.29 × 42.55 × 6.99 cm (13 1/2 × 16 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Culture: British
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.178256.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/ab4bb440-1386-4f1c-89b3-b607f8bef9b3/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)