Swan and Iris (Sketch after Cecil Lawson's "Swan and Iris")
Medium
Etching and drypoint; fifth state of six (Glasgow); printed in black ink on medium weight ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 5 1/4 × 3 3/16 in. (13.3 × 8.1 cm) Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 11/16 in. (24 × 19.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
62.695.137
Tags
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler|Cecil Gordon Lawson · 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...