Art, literature & history
Sketching, No.I
1861
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.07 x 16.51 cm (4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 17.15 x 27.31 cm (6 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8453
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Sketching, No.I. 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
Sketching, No.I — James McNeill Whistler. 1861.
Medium: etching and drypoint.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.07 x 16.51 cm (4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 17.15 x 27.31 cm (6 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8453. 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.