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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Thames Police.
Etching and drypoint on thin cream laid Japan paper, 1859. 151x221 mm; 5 7/8x8 7/8 inches, full margins. MacDonald's fifth state (of 5). A brilliant, richly-inked impression with all the fine lines distinct.
The Marine Police, established in 1798, became the Thames Division of the Metropolitan Police in 1839. In this view, Whistler represented their brick and bay-windowed structure on the banks of the Thames at Wapping Wharf, with their skiffs and marine patrol boats pulled up on the river bank. Kennedy 44; Glasgow 53.
