Art, literature & history
The Doorway
1879/80
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching, drypoint and roulette with foul biting in warm black, with selective wiping of plate tone, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 29 × 20.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 30.2 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1938.1878
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Doorway. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Doorway — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1879/80.
Medium: Etching, drypoint and roulette with foul biting in warm black, with selective wiping of plate tone, on cream laid paper. Dimensions: Image/plate: 29 × 20.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 30.2 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.