About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
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Title
- Sketching
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1861
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Medium
- Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory wove paper
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Inscriptions
- Signed in plate, lower right: "Whistler." (the "t" uncrossed); inscribed in plate, lower center: "London, Published Decembe[r] 1st. 1861, by Day & Son, Lith. to the Queen."; in plate, lower right: "J. Whistler"; in plate, upper right: "PL. 45."
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Dimensions
- Plate: 12 × 16.6 cm (4 3/4 × 6 9/16 in.); Sheet: 13.5 × 23.5 cm (5 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Charles Deering Collection
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Reference Number
- 1927.5940
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/50917/manifest.json