Early Morning, Battersea — James Abbott McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Early Morning, Battersea

1861

Dating
Exact year
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
etching and drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 11.43 x 15.24 cm (4 1/2 x 6 in.) sheet: 20.64 x 26.04 cm (8 1/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Collection no.
1949.5.535
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Early Morning, Battersea. 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

Early Morning, Battersea — James McNeill Whistler. 1861.

Medium: etching and drypoint on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.43 x 15.24 cm (4 1/2 x 6 in.) sheet: 20.64 x 26.04 cm (8 1/8 x 10 1/4 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1949.5.535. 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.

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