The Fleet: Monitors — James Abbott McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

The Fleet: Monitors

1887

Dating
Exact year
Held at
Art Institute of Chicago
Medium
Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image, trimmed within platemark: 14 × 22.2 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 14.4 × 22.2 cm (5 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Collection no.
1917.497
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Fleet: Monitors. James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Art Institute of Chicago; Bequest of Bryan Lathrop. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

About this artwork

The Fleet: Monitors — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1887.

Medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on cream laid paper. Dimensions: Image, trimmed within platemark: 14 × 22.2 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 14.4 × 22.2 cm (5 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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