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"The Swan," Chelsea (The Old Swan Brewery, Chelsea)
James McNeill WhistlerWW-1872-T006200
1872·Etching; only state (Glasgow); printed in black ink on grayish laid paper·Plate: 2 11/16 × 3 7/8 in. (6.8 × 9.8 cm)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1872
- Dimensions
- Plate: 2 11/16 × 3 7/8 in. (6.8 × 9.8 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
Artist
James McNeill Whistler
Painting
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- James McNeill Whistler
- Year
- 1872
- Dimensions
- Plate: 2 11/16 × 3 7/8 in. (6.8 × 9.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1872-T006200
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- Status
- verified