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James McNeill Whistler — Twelve Etchings from Nature:  The Unsafe Tenement

James McNeill Whistler

Twelve Etchings from Nature: The Unsafe Tenement

1858

From Whistler's debut etching series, this work reveals his social consciousness and technical precision in portraying London's urban poverty with unflinching realism.

Medium
etching

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