Long house - Dyer's - Amsterdam

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · [1889]

On a dilapidated bulkhead, the border of a canal, is a long brick building, with irregular windows above, and a row of doorways and adjacent windows below. Near the center, a shed with a singles window is built to the edge of the bulkhead, to which, on either hand, rude palings are fastened. A woman is standing in the doorway at the left, in front of which a woman is bending over, cleaning a basin. A child is leaning over palings at the right. There are extensive reflections in the canal. The butterfly, shaded, is on the lower part of the shed.