Art, literature & history
A Sketch from Billingsgate
1878
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 14.92 x 22.54 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 20.96 x 34.29 cm (8 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8503
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. A Sketch from Billingsgate. 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,_A_Sketch_from_Billingsgate,_1878,_NGA_11000.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Sketch from Billingsgate — James McNeill Whistler. 1878.
Medium: drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 14.92 x 22.54 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 20.96 x 34.29 cm (8 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8503. 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.