1887
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Fish-Shop, Busy Chelsea is a 1887 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, depicting Street, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a busy fish shop in Chelsea. Piles of fish sit on tables. One man weighs fish while others chat and carry baskets. Whistler made this on a copper plate. He scratched lines into the metal with a needle, then filled the lines with ink. The paper is soft and slightly uneven. Try another Whistler, James McNeill, to see how he used simple lines.
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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