1880
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Drury Lane is a 1880 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, depicting Street, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a quiet London street at night. Gas lamps glow on wet cobblestones. Tall brick buildings lean in, their windows dark. Whistler made many London scenes this way. He used fine lines and shadows to build mood. Not a photo—more like a fast sketch with feeling. See how the ink bleeds slightly? That’s drypoint. Tiny rough edges catch the light. Try Whistler, James McNeill next.
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.
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