1880
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Palaces is a 1880 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a row of fancy buildings along a waterway. The structures have tall, arched windows and small balconies with decorative railings. Boats glide in the foreground, and the whole scene is drawn in fine, precise lines. The artist used a mix of shading and sharp lines to show light and shadow. This technique is called drypoint, where the artist scratches into the metal plate to make marks. Next, check out etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how artists create these detailed prints.
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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