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The Unsafe Tenement (Primary Title)
Douze eaux-fortes d'après Nature (Series Title)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903 (Artist)

1858
American
Works On Paper
Prints
etching on Japanese paper
American Art
Mount (mat): 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 3/8 × 11 3/8 in. (21.27 × 28.89 cm)
Plate: 6 1/4 × 8 15/16 in. (15.88 × 22.7 cm)
91.558
Not on view
Signed Whistler in plate lower right.
Inscribed in graphite lower left: 4th state K 17 IV. Inscribed in graphite lower right: "C35858" and "es". More illegible inscriptions along lower margin, partially erased. Inscribed in graphite on verso lower right: a46775.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Helmut Wakeham
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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