Billingsgate — James Abbott McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Billingsgate

1859

Dating
Exact year
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.24 × 22.54 cm (6 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 20 × 26.99 cm (7 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
Collection no.
2015.19.406
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Billingsgate. 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

Billingsgate — James McNeill Whistler. 1859.

Medium: etching and drypoint in black on laid paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 15.24 × 22.54 cm (6 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 20 × 26.99 cm (7 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.406. Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel, 1938).

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.

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