The Tall Bridge
Medium
Lithotint with scraping, first state of two (Chicago), printed in brown ink on Japanese paper mounted on off-white plate paper
Dimensions
chine: 11 x 7 1/4 in. (27.9 x 18.4 cm) sheet: 17 9/16 x 10 7/8 in. (44.6 x 27.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1984
Accession Number
1984.1096
Tags
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...