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Billingsgate

James McNeill Whistler

1859

Medium

Etching and drypoint; nineth state of nine (Glasgow) ; black ink on medium weight buff laid paper

Tags

BuildingsShipsLondonHuman Figures

Dimensions

Plate: 6 × 8 13/16 in. (15.2 × 22.4 cm) Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 9/16 in. (20.5 × 26.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About James McNeill Whistler

1834–1903 • United States

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker who spent most of his career in Europe, becoming a leading figure in the Aesthetic Movement and a pioneer of both Tonalism and Japonisme. He fundamentally challenged Victorian artistic conventions by championing "art for art's sake" and treating paintings as visual equivalents of musical compositions.

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