Art, literature & history
The Old Swan Brewery, Chelsea
1872
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in dark brown on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate (trimmed to the platemark): 6.67 x 9.84 cm (2 5/8 x 3 7/8 in.) sheet (includes tab with signature): 6.99 x 9.84 cm (2 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8461
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Old Swan Brewery, Chelsea. 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
The Old Swan Brewery, Chelsea — James McNeill Whistler. 1872.
Medium: etching in dark brown on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate (trimmed to the platemark): 6.67 x 9.84 cm (2 5/8 x 3 7/8 in.) sheet (includes tab with signature): 6.99 x 9.84 cm (2 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8461. 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.