Art, literature & history
Fishing-Boat
1880
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 15.56 x 23.18 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.) sheet (includes tab with signature): 16.51 x 23.18 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1942.15.25
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Fishing-Boat. 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,_Fishing-Boat,_1880,_NGA_3185.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Fishing-Boat — James McNeill Whistler. 1880.
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 15.56 x 23.18 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.) sheet (includes tab with signature): 16.51 x 23.18 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1942.15.25. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Watson Webb in memory of Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer.
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.