Fish Shop, Chelsea
Medium
Etching and drypoint with foul biting and plate tone in dark brown on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image, trimmed within platemark: 14 × 21.7 cm (5 9/16 × 8 9/16 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 14.3 × 21.7 cm (5 11/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
29494
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler · 1834–1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker who became a leading figure in the Aesthetic Movement and pioneer of Tonalism and Japonisme. He revolutionized art by championing "art for art's sake" and treating paintings as visual equivalents of musical compositions, titling works as "arrangements," "harmonies," and "nocturnes" to emphasize formal qualities o...