Art, literature & history
Reading by Lamplight
1859
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 15.88 × 11.75 cm (6 1/4 × 4 5/8 in.) sheet: 21.91 × 16.19 cm (8 5/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.424
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Reading by Lamplight. 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
Reading by Lamplight — James McNeill Whistler. 1859.
Medium: etching and drypoint in black on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 15.88 × 11.75 cm (6 1/4 × 4 5/8 in.) sheet: 21.91 × 16.19 cm (8 5/8 × 6 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.424. Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel, 1938).
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.