James McNeill Whistler

Cutler Street, Hounsditch

1887 · Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper · Image, trimmed within platemark: 17.5 × 12.5 cm (6 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17.8 × 12.5 cm (7 1/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

Cutler Street, Hounsditch, Whistler, 1887
Art Institute of Chicago

Whistler, Cutler Street, Hounsditch, 1887. Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper.

The Art Institute of Chicago · Clarence Buckingham Collection

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