Art, literature & history
The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching, printed in black ink on tan (darkened) chine on white wove paper (chine collé); third state of four (Glasgow)
- Dimensions
- Plate: 6 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (15.6 x 22.5 cm) Sheet: 10 1/4 × 12 1/8 in. (26.1 × 30.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 83.1.37
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm) — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1858.
Medium: Etching, printed in black ink on tan (darkened) chine on white wove paper (chine collé); third state of four (Glasgow). Dimensions: Plate: 6 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (15.6 x 22.5 cm) Sheet: 10 1/4 × 12 1/8 in. (26.1 × 30.8 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
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.