Reading

1879

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Lithograph with scraping; printed in black ink on grayish chine mounted on ivory wove paper; fourth state of four (Chicago)
Dimensions: Image: 6 1/8 × 5 1/8 in. (15.5 × 13 cm) Sheet: 14 7/8 × 12 1/8 in. (37.8 × 30.8 cm)
Collection no.: 67.630.57
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Reading. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Reading — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1879.

Medium: Lithograph with scraping; printed in black ink on grayish chine mounted on ivory wove paper; fourth state of four (Chicago). Dimensions: Image: 6 1/8 × 5 1/8 in. (15.5 × 13 cm) Sheet: 14 7/8 × 12 1/8 in. (37.8 × 30.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1967.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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