James McNeill Whistler

Alderney Street

1881 · Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper · Image, trimmed within platemark: 17.2 × 10.8 cm (6 13/16 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 18.5 × 10.8 cm (7 5/16 × 4 5/16 in.)

Alderney Street, Whistler, 1881
Art Institute of Chicago

Whistler, Alderney Street, 1881. Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper.

The Art Institute of Chicago · John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection

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