Art, literature & history
Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate
1854/1855
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 12.7 x 24.13 cm (5 x 9 1/2 in.) plate: 14.61 x 25.4 cm (5 3/4 x 10 in.) sheet: 15.24 x 26.04 cm (6 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8396
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate. 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
Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate — James McNeill Whistler. 1854/1855.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 12.7 x 24.13 cm (5 x 9 1/2 in.) plate: 14.61 x 25.4 cm (5 3/4 x 10 in.) sheet: 15.24 x 26.04 cm (6 x 10 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8396. 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.