Art, literature & history
The Lime-Burner
1859
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 25.3 x 17.6 cm (9 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 28.1 x 20.3 cm (11 1/16 x 8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1987.41.65
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Lime-Burner. 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
The Lime-Burner — James McNeill Whistler. 1859.
Medium: etching and drypoint on Japanese paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 25.3 x 17.6 cm (9 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 28.1 x 20.3 cm (11 1/16 x 8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1987.41.65. Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook.
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.