Art, literature & history
The Dog on the Kennel
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 7 x 8.9 cm (2 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.) sheet: 24.8 x 31.3 cm (9 3/4 x 12 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.116.146
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Dog on the Kennel. 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 Dog on the Kennel — James McNeill Whistler. 1858.
Medium: etching on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 7 x 8.9 cm (2 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.) sheet: 24.8 x 31.3 cm (9 3/4 x 12 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.116.146. Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner.
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.