The kitchen

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · [1858]

In a deep embrasure, in the far part of a dark roughly built kitchen with earthen floor and timbered ceiling, stands a woman looking out of a vine-bordered window. At her right is a long staff, placed against the wall. In front, at the right, is a basket near a dresser on which are two deep pans and above which, in racks on the wall, are pans and platters. On the opposite side are two jars on a high shelf, and there are jars in the embrasure beyond. Near the bottom of the plate, at the right, "Whistler."