Etching and drypoint on thin cream laid paper, 1859. 151x221 mm; 5 7/8x8 7/8 inches, full margins. Second state (of 3). A brilliant, richly-inked impression with all the fine lines printing clearly.
The Marine Police, established in 1798, became the Thames Division of the Metropolitan Police in 1839. In this view, Whistler shows their brick and bay-windowed structure on the banks of the Thames at Wapping Wharf, with the skiffs and marine patrol boats pulled up on the river bank. Kennedy 44.
