# Building by a Dam

- By: John Frederick Kensett (American, 1816 - 1872)
- Date: 1850-1860
- Medium: graphite over watercolor on wove paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: image: 13.34 × 21.27 cm (5 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.) ; sheet: 18.1 × 26.67 cm (7 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1948)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.179541.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/f37bf4c7-05f3-42f3-b384-800c2a4518b3/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)