Art, literature & history
The Old Smith's Story
1895
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph in black on laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 20.5 × 15.3 cm (8 1/16 × 6 in.) sheet: 27.8 × 18.3 cm (10 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8756
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Old Smith's Story. 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_Old_Smith%27s_Story,_1895,_NGA_11253.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 Old Smith's Story — James McNeill Whistler. 1895.
Medium: lithograph in black on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 20.5 × 15.3 cm (8 1/16 × 6 in.) sheet: 27.8 × 18.3 cm (10 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8756. Rosenwald Collection.
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.