From Billingsgate
1876/77
Medium
Drypoint with foul biting, with drypoint cancellation, in black ink on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 15.1 × 22.6 cm (6 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet, sight, bound: 24 × 37.9 cm (9 1/2 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
190710
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...