Troop ships

Troop ships

Item Information

Title:
Troop ships
Description:
Across a wide water is a double line of ships dressed with bunting. In front of the central ship there is a sloop under sail. At the right are a launch and a steamboat, and beyond them are small boats under sail. The butterfly, in outline, is at the right, near the bottom of the plate.
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
Ships
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 13 x 18 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. 319
Additional information accompanying item: No. 3 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_000230
W. 372 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000188884