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Steamboats off the Tower |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.352) | |
| Number: | 156 | |
| Date: | 1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 154 x 225 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 9 | |
| Catalogues: | K.149; M.147; W.114 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (9) | ||
Steamboats off the Tower probably dates from 1875. Whistler wrote on one impression, 'From the Custom House - Thames; 75.' (
). Furthermore, Beatrice Whistler later listed a drypoint, probably this one, as 'Steamboat off Tower, dry point. 1875'. 1
). Furthermore, Beatrice Whistler later listed a drypoint, probably this one, as 'Steamboat off Tower, dry point. 1875'. 1
1: [1890/1892], GUW #12715.
The butterfly monogram is of the form used by Whistler between 1874 and 1875. The Two Ships
[143] is of a similar date.