The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea (Fish Shop, Chelsea), James McNeill Whistler, 1886–87

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The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea (Fish Shop, Chelsea), 1886–87, Etching; second state of two (Glasgow), 5 3/8 x 8 7/16 in. ( x cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), After returning to London from Venice, Whistler made a number of prints devoted to the shop fronts of small vendors operating in old buildings. Here, the windows, awnings, and piled counters of Elizabeth Maunder’s fish shop on Cheyne Walk, near the artist’s Chelsea residence, are used to develop an abstracted pattern of lights and darks

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Size: 5731px × 3585px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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