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Thames Police

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.275)
Number: 53
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 153 x 229 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower right
Inscribed: '1859.' at lower right
Set/Publication: 'Thames Set', 1871
No. of States: 6
Known impressions: 81
Catalogues: K.44; M.43; T.43; W.42
Impressions taken from this plate  (81)
Thames Police was signed and dated '1859' on the copper plate.
Whistler made over thirty etchings during the year, including many scenes on and by the river Thames in London, such as Thames Warehouses [46], Limehouse [48], The Pool [49], Eagle Wharf [50], Black Lion Wharf [54], and Billingsgate [51].
Thames Police was published in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (the 'Thames Set'), by Ellis & Green in 1871.