Billingsgate
1859
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 15.24 × 22.54 cm (6 × 8 7/8 in.)
sheet: 20 × 26.99 cm (7 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.406
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 51, state ix/ix
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1948
Etchings by Whistler, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948
1952
Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952
1990
Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 26, repro
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
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: Whistler. 1859.; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 11139; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: B19213; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: YH
Watermarks
D [coat of arms] M
Wikidata ID
Q77012940