James McNeill Whistler, a well known painter, was also a prolific and sophisticated printmaker who experimented with a wide range of papers. An Artist Abroad illustrates the life and printed works of this key figure of 19th-century art, showing how the young artist was influenced by both the French Realist tradition and the Golden Age of Dutch art. An Artist Abroad also includes Whistler’s evocative series of etchings of London and Venice.