Art, literature & history
Reading
1879
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Lithograph with scraping on cream chine mounted on off-white plate paper; fourth state of four (Chicago)
- Dimensions
- Image: 6 1/8 × 5 1/8 in. (15.5 × 13 cm) Sheet: 17 15/16 × 13 9/16 in. (45.6 × 34.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 17.3.165
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Reading. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Reading — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1879.
Medium: Lithograph with scraping on cream chine mounted on off-white plate paper; fourth state of four (Chicago). Dimensions: Image: 6 1/8 × 5 1/8 in. (15.5 × 13 cm) Sheet: 17 15/16 × 13 9/16 in. (45.6 × 34.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
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.