Artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834-1903
Publisher Day and Son, English, active 1860 - 1880
Title
  • Sketching, No. 1
Date 1861
Medium etching and drypoint printed in black ink on wove paper
Dimensions Plate: 4 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (12.1 × 16.5 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 9 1/8 inches (15.9 × 23.2 cm)
Credit Line Bequest of Hal H. Smith
Accession Number 45.410
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed in plate, lower right: Whistler
Inscriptions Inscribed, dated in plate, lower center: London, Published December 1st. 1861, by Day & Son, Lith. to the Queen.
Upper right: PL. 45.
1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)