Billingsgate, 1859

  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 6 × 8 7/8 inches (15.2 × 22.5 cm) Sheet: 7 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (20 × 27.6 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.68

Signed and dated, in plate, lower right: Whistler 1859

Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: A95959 (a dealer stock number) Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: YH, as in DIA no. 21.38, which was purchased at the same time.

1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 3, no. 8 (1922): 81-82.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Billingsgate, 1859, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.68.