Art, literature & history
Railway Arch, American Square
1887
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image, trimmed within platemark: 7 × 16.3 cm (2 13/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 7.3 × 16.3 cm (2 7/8 × 6 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1917.476
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Railway Arch, American Square. James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Art Institute of Chicago; Bequest of Bryan Lathrop. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Railway Arch, American Square — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1887.
Medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper. Dimensions: Image, trimmed within platemark: 7 × 16.3 cm (2 13/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 7.3 × 16.3 cm (2 7/8 × 6 7/16 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.