Whistler with the White Lock
Medium
Etching and drypoint; only state (Glasgow); printed in black ink on ivory tissue-weight Japan
Dimensions
Plate: 4 5/8 x 3 3/16 in. (11.7 x 8.1 cm) Sheet: 13 in. × 9 9/16 in. (33 × 24.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1982
Accession Number
1982.1097
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...