Art, literature & history
The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea
1886
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in brown on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.7 x 21.7 cm (5 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1987.41.73
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea. James McNeill Whistler; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_McNeill_Whistler,_The_Fish_Shop,_Busy_Chelsea,_1887,_NGA_70125.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea — James McNeill Whistler. 1886.
Medium: etching and drypoint in brown on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.7 x 21.7 cm (5 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1987.41.73. 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.