Art, literature & history
The Unsafe Tenement
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white China paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé)
- Dimensions
- Plate: 15.7 × 22.7 cm (6 3/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 29.4 × 39.7 cm (11 5/8 × 15 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1934.571
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Unsafe Tenement. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Unsafe Tenement — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1858.
Medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white China paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé). Dimensions: Plate: 15.7 × 22.7 cm (6 3/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 29.4 × 39.7 cm (11 5/8 × 15 11/16 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.