Brownish-gold copper plate with faint etched lines showing a building facade and a street receding into shadow.

Nocturne: Palaces, cancelled copper plate by James McNeill Whistler

A rectangular copper plate, its surface scratched and dulled to a warm brown-gold, shows faint etched lines of a city street at dusk. A building with tall windows and a shadowed facade rises on the right, with a receding roadway and figures suggested below.

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/80
Medium: Cancelled copper plate
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2529 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1880).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Walter S. Brewster

19th century 1870s 1879 copper plate etching printmaking street scene dusk cancelled plate city at night nocturne palaces whistler