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  • Title: The Unsafe Tenement
  • Creator: James McNeill Whistler
  • Date Created: 1858
  • Subject Keywords: labor, slums
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in plate, lower right: “Whistler” (with “s” reversed); inscribed along lower edge: “Imp. Delâtre. Rue St. Jacques. 171”
  • Set or Series Title: Twelve Etchings from Nature (The French Set)
  • Print State: Fourth of four states
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
  • Materials & Techniques: Etching on gold-tone chine collé
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Edition: From the set "Twelve Etchings from Nature," known as the "French Set," published in 1858
  • Dimensions: 1903
  • Bibliography: Kennedy 17 iv/iv
  • Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
  • Accession Number: 1947.D1.29b

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