Billingsgate
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1859
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 6 × 8 7/8 in. (15.2 × 22.5 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 12 3/16 in. (26.5 × 31 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alden Guild, Class of 1952
PR.979.18
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in plate, lower right: Whistler, 1859.
Exhibition History
The Image Impressed, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 25-July 31, 1985.
Provenance
Alden Guild (1929-2017), Montpelier, Vermont; given to the present collection, 1979.
Catalogue Raisonne
E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, San Francisco, 1978, no. 47. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 46.
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