Art, literature & history
The Seamstress
c. 1884/1886
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall (trimmed to plate): 9.9 × 6.6 cm (3 7/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8571
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Seamstress. James McNeill Whistler; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_McNeill_Whistler,_The_Seamstress,_c._1884-1886,_NGA_11068.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Seamstress — James McNeill Whistler. c. 1884/1886.
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall (trimmed to plate): 9.9 × 6.6 cm (3 7/8 × 2 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8571. Rosenwald Collection.
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.