Whistler

James McNeill Whistler
Portrait of a Lady
1859
etching
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
Longshore Men
1859
etching
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
Rotherhithe
1860
etching and drypoint 
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

James McNeill Whistler
Morning before the Massacre of St Bartholomew
1862
wood-engraving
(magazine illustration)
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
Symphony in Blue and Pink
ca. 1868
oil on board
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
Symphony in White and Red
ca. 1868
oil on board
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
Venus
1888
oil on board
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
The Steps, Amsterdam
1888
etching
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
The Square House, Amsterdam
1888
etching
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
The Embroidered Curtain, Amsterdam
1889
etching
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
Confidences in the Garden
(Whistler's wife Beatrix with her sister)
1894
drawing (print study)
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
La Robe Rouge
(Whistler's wife Beatrix)
1894
drawing (print study)
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
La Belle Dame Paresseuse
(Whistler's wife Beatrix)
1894
drawing (print study)
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
La Belle Dame Endormie
(Whistler's wife Beatrix)
1894
drawing (print study)
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
The Russian Schube
1896
lithograph
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

James McNeill Whistler
Firelight, Joseph Pennell no.2
1896
drawing (print study)
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

from The Art of Poetry

    Observe what Characters your persons fit,

Whether the Master speak, or Jodelet:

Whether a man, that's elderly in growth,

Or a brisk Hotspur in his boiling youth:

A roaring Bully, or a shirking Cheat,

A Court-bred Lady, or a tawdry Cit:

A prating Gossip, or a jilting Whore,

A travell'd Merchant, or an homespun Bore:

Spaniard, or French, Italian, Dutch, or Dane;

Native of Turky, India, or Japan.

    Either from History your Persons take,

Or let them nothing inconsistent speak:

If you bring great Achilles on the Stage,

Let him be fierce and brave, all heat and rage,

Inflexible, and head-strong to all Laws,

But those, which Arms and his own will impose.

Cruel Medea must no pity have,

Ixion must be treacherous, Ino grieve,

Io must wander, and Orestes rave.

But if you dare to tread in paths unknown,

And boldly start new persons of your own;

Be sure to make them in one strain agree,

And let the end like the beginning be.

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by John Oldham (1681)