A Sketch from Billingsgate

James Abbott McNeill Whistler1878

Details

Title: A Sketch from Billingsgate
Creator: James McNeill Whistler
Date Created: 1878
Physical Dimensions: plate: 14.61 x 22.54 cm (5 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 20.96 x 33.02 cm (8 1/4 x 13 in.)
Provenance: Royal Collection, Windsor, (Lugt 2535); sold to Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1906; (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. 41644, valued at £27, stock no. changed to a41996); sold 1906 to unidentified collector for $500. Probably in the 1920s with Kennedy & Co., New York. Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.
Medium: drypoint on laid paper

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