Art, literature & history
Billingsgate
1859
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 15.08 × 22.54 cm (5 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 19.84 × 28.1 cm (7 13/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.3254
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Billingsgate. 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
Billingsgate — James McNeill Whistler. 1859.
Medium: etching and drypoint in black on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 15.08 × 22.54 cm (5 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 19.84 × 28.1 cm (7 13/16 × 11 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.3254. Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Margaret Coughlan, 2004).
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.