Art, literature & history
The Hammock
1880
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 27.7 x 18.1 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 35 x 20.1 cm (13 3/4 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2018.301
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Tissot. The Hammock. James Tissot; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Elizabeth Shearer. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Hammock — James Tissot. 1880.
Medium: etching and drypoint on antique laid paper. Dimensions: Image: 27.7 x 18.1 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 35 x 20.1 cm (13 3/4 x 7 15/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
This etching depicts Kathleen Newton, a British divorcee who frequently modeled for the French artist James Tissot during the 1870s, while he lived in London. Based on a painting of the previous year, the print shows Newton reclining on a tasseled hammock in the artist’s own garden, engrossed in a novel. Tissot reinterpreted many of his paintings as etchings, inspired by a revived interest in the medium.
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.