Art, literature & history
The Cock and the Pump
1887
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image, trimmed within platemark: 21.9 × 14.1 cm (8 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 22.2 × 14.1 cm (8 3/4 × 5 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1938.1874
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Cock and the Pump. James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Art Institute of Chicago; Clarence Buckingham Collection. 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
The Cock and the Pump — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1887.
Medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Image, trimmed within platemark: 21.9 × 14.1 cm (8 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 22.2 × 14.1 cm (8 3/4 × 5 9/16 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.