Billingsgate

1859

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and drypoint; nineth state of nine (Glasgow) ; black ink on medium weight buff laid paper
Dimensions: Plate: 6 × 8 13/16 in. (15.2 × 22.4 cm) Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 9/16 in. (20.5 × 26.9 cm)
Collection no.: 60.598.86
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

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

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Billingsgate — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1859.

Medium: Etching and drypoint; nineth state of nine (Glasgow) ; black ink on medium weight buff laid paper. Dimensions: Plate: 6 × 8 13/16 in. (15.2 × 22.4 cm) Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 9/16 in. (20.5 × 26.9 cm).

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

Credit line: Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960.

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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