Billingsgate, 1859

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.08 × 22.54 cm (5 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

sheet: 19.84 × 28.1 cm (7 13/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Margaret Coughlan)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 51, state ix/ix

Accession Number

2015.19.3254

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Whistler. 1859.; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 6 1/2 + 9 3/8 - 14 + 18; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: B437; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 409

Provenance

Margaret Coughlan, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Coughlan, Margaret

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 47.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 51, ix/ix. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk