The Old Thames: "Black Lion Wharf," an Etching
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
image: 11 3/16 x 16 7/8 in. (28.4 x 42.9 cm) sheet: 13 3/16 x 18 11/16 in. (33.5 x 47.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1985
Accession Number
1985.1160.79
Tags
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler|Carl Hentschel · 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...