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: 15.08 × 22.38 cm (5 15/16 × 8 13/16 in.)
sheet: 20.96 × 28.58 cm (8 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1531
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 51, state ix/ix
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 19
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 7.
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 right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 639; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: K.c4 Billingsgate-; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 36
Markings
stamped lower left verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]
Wikidata ID
Q77013014