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; sixth state of nine (Glasgow); printed in black ink on heavy cream Japan
Dimensions: Plate: 7 7/8 x 11 5/8 in. (20 x 29.5 cm)
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 12 7/16 in. (22.5 × 31.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Ships, term: Venice