Greenwich Park

Greenwich Park by James McNeill Whistler

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

LondonParksTrees

About the Artist

James McNeill Whistler · 18341903

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...

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