Art, literature & history
Nursemaid and Child
1859
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 9.68 × 13.18 cm (3 13/16 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 19.37 × 24.77 cm (7 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.420
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Nursemaid and Child. 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
Nursemaid and Child — James McNeill Whistler. 1859.
Medium: etching and drypoint in black on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 9.68 × 13.18 cm (3 13/16 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 19.37 × 24.77 cm (7 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.420. 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.