Monitors

Monitors

Item Information

Title:
Monitors
Description:
In front, at the left -- apparently on an excursion-boat -- three people are seated, one of them reading from a book, and beyond them a girl and a man are standing. Across the water, at the right, are two large monitors. In the distance are other war vessels and a few small boats under sail. The butterfly, in outline, is below the group on the boat.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
1887
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Marine prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Bodies of water
Boats
Turret ships
Passengers
Reading
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 15 x 22 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 318
Additional information accompanying item: No. 2 of the Naval Review series. This plate (with 11 others) was etched in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the reign of Queen Victoria, July 27, 1887. The letter he addressed to the Right Honourable W. H. Smith, then first Lord of the Admiralty, in connection with the presentation of this set of etchings to the Queen, gives a good idea of Whistler's "official" style.
Notes (ownership):
From the B. MacGeorge, Kennedy, and H. H. Benedict Collections.
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie). "The etched work of Whistler ; compiled, arranged and described by Edward G. Kennedy, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Only state.
Identifier:
17_14_000229
W. 371 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000188876