# Study for "Shad Fishing"

- By: William Tylee Ranney (American, 1813 - 1857)
- Date: c. 1846
- Medium: pen and ink with gouache on wove paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: image: 8.57 × 14.92 cm (3 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.) ; sheet: 12.07 × 17.94 cm (4 3/4 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Claude J. Ranney, grandson of the artist, 1960)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.182265.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/aafe8ba0-2fbd-4dd8-8d32-dbdab11fbedf/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)