https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/80278/fullNocturne1878[com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@13474]com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@13474Lithotint with chine collé on pale blue paperJames Abbott McNeill Whistler Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London Nocturne 1888 Lithotint with scraping, on a prepared half-tint ground, on chine collé Image: 6 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches (17.1 x 25.7 cm) Sheet: 14 1/8 x 17 5/16 inches (35.9 x 44 cm) Way 5; Tedeschi/Stratis 8 ii/ii Bequest of William P. Chapman, Jr., Class of 1895 57.271 Whistler, more than any other artist, was responsible for importing the “nocturne” from music into visual art. In 1885, he spoke of the artist’s unique ability to capture the transformative effects of twilight in the city, magically converting, for example, London’s factories and warehouses into bell towers and palaces. Is this image London or Venice? Is the foreground figure a bargeman or a gondolier? Stuart M. Blumincom.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.Classification@5ehttps://emuseum.cornell.edu/objects/894/rdf