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James McNeill Whistler

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Etching of sailing boats on a wide river with a distant town skyline and domed building under a pale sky.

Dordrecht

1880

Etching of a dilapidated half-timbered house with a sagging roof, a small girl in a doorway, and a dog on the ground.

The Unsafe Tenement

1850

Etching of a domed church across a lagoon with boats and gondolas in soft, hazy lines.

Little Salute

1880

Etching of a tall Brussels building with gables and a street market with figures and stalls in the foreground.

Flower Market, Brussels

1880

Etching of figures working around a furnace in front of a dark building with shuttered windows.

Murano-Glass Furnace

1880

Etching of a busy Venetian piazza with a clock tower, columns, figures on steps, a domed church and birds in the sky.

The Piazzetta

1880

Etching of a woman sketching on a riverbank as a rowing boat crosses the water toward trees and hills.

Sketching

1860

Etching of sailing boats with tall masts moored at a busy quay beside a brick clock tower and crowds of people.

Billingsgate

1850

Etching of a bearded man with tousled hair, arms folded, turned three-quarters toward the viewer.

C.L. Drouet, Sculptor

1850

Etched sketch of a harbor with masted ships, sailing boats, and a crowded boat in the right foreground on pale paper.

The Visitors' Boat

1880

Etching of a man smoking a pipe at a tent, with trees, a river and cooking pots in a loose hatched landscape.

The Camp

1860

Loose pencil-style sketch of a seated woman in a long dress holding an open folding fan, on a cream sheet.

The Fan

1870

Etching of a crowded waterfront with top-hatted figures in front, masted boats and rowboats on the water, and low buildings.

Penny Passengers, Limehouse

1860

Misty grey nocturne of factory chimneys and a church spire over a river, with a small dark boat in the foreground.

Nocturne

1870

Etching of a seated young woman in an apron resting her chin on her hand beside a desk in an interior.

Gretchen at Heidelberg

1850

Etching of a village street with stone houses, steep roofs, an arched doorway and small figures on a dirt road.

Liverdun

1850

Etched street scene of old buildings, a shop window and a standing figure in a doorway, drawn in loose brown hatching.

Petite Rue au Beurre, Brussels

1880

Etching of a Venice waterfront with domed churches, a tall bell tower, moored sailing ships and calm reflective water.

Salute Dawn

1880

Etching of a woman ironing at a tall table beside a seated man smoking a pipe, with an easel in a cluttered studio.

Au Sixième

1850

Etching of a woman with a fringed parasol seated in tall grass, with a straw hat beside her and a distant village.

En Plein Soleil

1850

Etching of a gondola passing under an arched stone bridge between tall Venetian buildings with reflections in the canal.

Gondola under a Bridge

1880

Etching of a nude woman bending forward with head lowered, set against vertical hatched lines on a pale paper ground.

Tillie: A Model

1870

Grey lithograph sketch of an old wooden bridge over water with moored boats in the foreground and trees on the shore.

Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2

1870

Etched sketch of a row of gabled houses with steep roofs and dormer windows on a pale paper ground.

Sketch of Houses

1850

Etching of an ornate baroque building facade in Brussels with sculpted pediment and small figures walking in the square below

Grand' Place, Brussels

1880

Etching of a street fruit stall under a canvas awning, with seated women, a child, a fruit basket and boats below.

Fruit Stall

1880

Fine-line etching of a seated woman in a dark dress beside a round table in a curtained interior room.

An Illustration to <em>The Trial Sermon</em>

1860

Grey lithograph of a tall wooden bridge with timber piers over rippled water, figures on the railing, pale sky.

The Tall Bridge

1870

Blue-toned etched title page showing a crowd of figures in a street, with a seated woman in a wide hat at center.

Title page of the "French Set"

1850

Handwritten letter on Hotel Chatham Paris letterhead with marginal corrections and page notes, by James McNeill Whistler.

Letter to William Heinemann with corrections for Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine wit…

October 18, 1898

Etching of a Chelsea street with shopfronts, a horse and cart, pedestrians, and windows crowded with birdcages.

Bird-Cages, Chelsea

1887

Pen sketch of Portsmouth harbor with sailboats and masts, and loosely drawn figures including children on the shore.

Children, Portsmouth

1887