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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Etching of two tall-masted sailing ships moored in a harbor, with a rowboat and distant masts and buildings.

Two Ships

James McNeill Whistler, 1875

Etching of a narrow old street with gabled timber buildings, a church spire in the distance, and a bare tree at right.

Wych Street

James McNeill Whistler, 1877

Etching of a narrow lane lined with leaning old houses, with leaded windows and two small figures in the foreground.

Little Smithfield

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1877

Etching of the arched Temple Bar gateway with statues, a horse and cart, and pedestrians on a city street.

Temple Bar

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1877

Lord Wolseley

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1877

Etching of a river scene framed by buildings, with small boats and a distant bridge on the water beneath a pale sky.

Under Old Battersea Bridge

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Etching of a canal with a curved bridge, hanging laundry, boats, figures and old buildings along the banks.

The Bridge

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/1880

Etching of a busy city street with a large arcade column, horse carriages, and pedestrians sketched in loose lines.

Regent's Quadrant

James McNeill Whistler, 1880/1881

Etching of two women in an interior, one standing and one seated sewing, with loose hatched lines and a mantel behind them.

The Seamstress

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1884/1886

Etching of a street fruit shop with a T.A. Nash sign, awning, and figures in hats and children in the foreground.

T.A. Nash's Fruit-Shop

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1886

Etching of a woman holding a child in a doorway beneath shelves of caged birds, with a shop interior behind.

Bird-Cages, Drury Lane

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1886/1888

Etching of a crowded street scene with a tall arched building, women in long dresses, and a small standing child.

Clothes Exchange, No.II

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1886/1888

Etching of a narrow passage with a sign reading Entrance to the Exhibition Clothes Exchange and figures in long dresses.

Fleur de Lys Passage

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1886/1888

Etching of a crowded city street with shopfronts, awnings, pedestrians, and a sign reading Babrahams.

Cutler Street, Hounsditch

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a standing girl in a wide hat and ruffled dress beside a small child, with a faint third figure at right.

The Little Nurse

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1886/1888

Loose ink sketch of a Gothic arched church doorway with stone pillars and a wooden door, with buildings sketched above.

Church Doorway, Edgemere

James McNeill Whistler

Etching of a village square with thatched cottages, a stone pump, figures in hats, and a rooster on the ground.

The Cock and the Pump

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1887

Etching of women under a pier shelter with sailboats on water beyond, and a seated figure in the lower right.

Ryde Pier

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a standing woman in a long hatched fur cloak and small hat, set against loose, dark crosshatched background lines.

The Fur Cloak

James McNeill Whistler

Etching of a seated young woman in a hat and long dress, drawn with loose, sketchy lines on pale paper.

Nora Quinn

James McNeill Whistler

Etching of a seated woman in a feathered hat and fur-trimmed wrap, drawn in loose sketchy hatching on pale paper.

Miss Lenoir

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1887

Etching of a standing figure wrapped in a large mantle with a wide-brimmed hat, drawn in loose hatched lines.

The Mantle

James McNeill Whistler

Etching of a seated young child with curly hair and a sketched adult head in a hat at upper right.

Gipsy Baby

James McNeill Whistler

Etching of a small standing nude male figure with head bowed, set against loose diagonal hatching on pale paper.

Little Nude Figure

James McNeill Whistler

Etching of a seated woman in a headscarf leaning toward a small infant, drawn in loose, sketchy lines on tan paper.

Cameo, No.I

James McNeill Whistler

Etching of a tall narrow building with arched top and ornate carving, a doorway at the base, and small figures in the street.

Gold-House, Brussels

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of an ornate Brussels building facade with sculpted pediment and small street figures, by James McNeill Whistler, 188

Grand' Place, Brussels

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a shadowy courtyard with an arched balcony, doorways, hanging laundry and a figure at left on cobblestones.

Courtyard, Rue P.L. Courier

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Etching of a Gothic stone doorway with ornate carved arch and two seated children at the base, on a cobbled street.

Hangman's House, Tours

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Etching of a tall stone town hall facade with an arched doorway and figures gathered in the street below.

Mairie, Loches

James McNeill Whistler, 1888