# Reward of Merit

- By: John Cheney (American, 1801 - 1885)
- Date: 1821
- Medium: etching in black on wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: plate: 9.68 × 15.24 cm (3 13/16 × 6 in.) ; sheet: 13.18 × 20.32 cm (5 3/16 × 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.183546.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/afef0bcd-1413-4d4b-a24d-3e89cc3976d3/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)