1887
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Little Court, Cloth Fair is a 1887 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a busy street scene with buildings stacked closely together. The lines are loose and quick, like a hurried drawing. You can barely make out people walking, but the focus is on the tall, narrow houses and the cluttered rooftops. The artist used a scratchy, sketchy style—almost like a quick note rather than a finished picture. This was made using lithography, where the image is drawn directly onto a stone or metal plate. Check out lithography to see how artists create prints this way.
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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