Clock tower, Amboise LCCN2003687635
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist · 1800 · illustration
Public domain
Public domain on Wikimedia Commons. Dated 1930 or earlier, and the file’s license name is Public domain — not “no known restrictions.”
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About this picture
Clock tower, Amboise LCCN2003687635 is a public-domain illustration by Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist, dated 1800. Illustration. The file comes from Wikimedia Commons.
“Clock tower, Amboise LCCN2003687635” (1800) is meant to be read as a harmony of tone. Whistler often called such pictures arrangements or nocturnes rather than views of a place.
About the artist
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was an American artist working in London and Paris. He titled many pictures as arrangements or nocturnes, asking that they be seen as harmonies of tone, not only as portraits of a place.
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