Art, literature & history
Little Arthur
c. 1857/1858
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 5.9 x 5 cm (2 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.) sheet: 12.2 x 9.7 cm (4 13/16 x 3 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1987.41.59
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Little Arthur. Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Little Arthur — James McNeill Whistler. c. 1857/1858.
Medium: etching on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 5.9 x 5 cm (2 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.) sheet: 12.2 x 9.7 cm (4 13/16 x 3 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1987.41.59. Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.