Art, literature & history
Old Battersea Bridge
1879
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on cream Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20.4 × 29.7 cm (8 1/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 28.9 × 44.3 cm (11 7/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1938.1859
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Old Battersea Bridge. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Old Battersea Bridge — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1879.
Medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on cream Japanese paper. Dimensions: Plate: 20.4 × 29.7 cm (8 1/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 28.9 × 44.3 cm (11 7/16 × 17 1/2 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.