Steamboat Fleet
[1875]
Medium
Drypoint; first state of two (Glasgow); printed in black ink on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 5 5/16 × 8 3/8 in. (13.5 × 21.2 cm) Sheet: 5 3/8 × 8 3/8 in. (13.6 × 21.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1983
Accession Number
1983.1144
Tags
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler · 1834–1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker who became a leading figure in the Aesthetic Movement and pioneer of Tonalism and Japonisme. He revolutionized art by championing "art for art's sake" and treating paintings as visual equivalents of musical compositions, titling works as "arrangements," "harmonies," and "nocturnes" to emphasize formal qualities o...