Art, literature & history
Salute Dawn
1879/1880
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.7 x 20.16 cm (5 x 7 15/16 in.) sheet (includes tab with signature): 13.18 x 20.16 cm (5 3/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8551
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Salute Dawn. James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Salute Dawn — James McNeill Whistler. 1879/1880.
Medium: etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.7 x 20.16 cm (5 x 7 15/16 in.) sheet (includes tab with signature): 13.18 x 20.16 cm (5 3/16 x 7 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8551. 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.