Billingsgate

1859

Dating: Exact year
Held at: Art Institute of Chicago
Medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in dark brown ink on off-white Japanese paper
Dimensions: Plate: 15.3 × 22.7 cm (6 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 27.4 × 35.2 cm (10 13/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
Collection no.: 1917.447
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Billingsgate. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

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Billingsgate — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1859.

Medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in dark brown ink on off-white Japanese paper. Dimensions: Plate: 15.3 × 22.7 cm (6 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 27.4 × 35.2 cm (10 13/16 × 13 7/8 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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