Greenwich Park
Medium
Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on medium weight off-white laid paper; third state of three (Glasgow)
Dimensions
Plate: 4 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (12.6 × 20.2 cm) Sheet: 9 5/16 × 10 7/8 in. (23.7 × 27.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
83.1.22
Tags
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler · 1834–1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker who became a leading figure in the Aesthetic Movement and pioneer of Tonalism and Japonisme. He revolutionized art by championing "art for art's sake" and treating paintings as visual equivalents of musical compositions, titling works as "arrangements," "harmonies," and "nocturnes" to emphasize formal qualities o...