Nocturne: Shipping
1879–80
Medium
Drypoint; first state of five (Glasgow); printed in black ink on pale buff laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 6 × 8 9/16 in. (15.3 × 21.7 cm) Sheet: 6 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (15.4 x 21.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harold K. Hochschild, 1940
Accession Number
40.63.6
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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...