F. R. Leyland — James Abbott McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

F. R. Leyland

c. 1870/1873

Dating
Approximate date range
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
etching, drypoint and open bite on "japon mince" paper
Dimensions
plate: 30.32 × 17.62 cm (11 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 31.27 × 18.57 cm (12 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Collection no.
1949.5.538
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. F. R. Leyland. 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

F. R. Leyland — James McNeill Whistler. c. 1870/1873.

Medium: etching, drypoint and open bite on "japon mince" paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 30.32 × 17.62 cm (11 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 31.27 × 18.57 cm (12 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1949.5.538. Rosenwald Collection.

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.

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