The Unsafe Tenement
James McNeill WhistlerWW-1858-241802
1858·etching and drypoint on laid paper·plate: 15.56 x 22.23 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
sheet: 24.13 x 32.39 cm (9 1/2 x 12 3/4 in.)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1858
- Dimensions
- plate: 15.56 x 22.23 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 24.13 x 32.39 cm (9 1/2 x 12 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
Artist
James McNeill Whistler
Painting
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- James McNeill Whistler
- Year
- 1858
- Dimensions
- plate: 15.56 x 22.23 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 24.13 x 32.39 cm (9 1/2 x 12 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1858-241802
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
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- Status
- verified