Title: Nocturne
Object type: Print
Date: 1879–80
Portfolio: First Venice Set ("Venice: Twelve Etchings," 1880)
Artist:  James McNeill Whistler 
Artist bio: American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on heavy cream Japan paper; sixth state of nine (Glasgow)
Dimensions: Plate: 8 × 11 5/8 in. (20.3 × 29.6 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 11 3/4 in. (20.6 × 29.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Canals, term: Ships, term: Venice