File:Thames Police, 1859 RMG PW5487.jpg
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English: Thames Police, 1859 A view of the Thames at low tide, at Wapping Wharf. The Thames Police tower stands on the right, next to a building marked “Wapping Wharf.” Thames police officers and their skiffs pulled up on the shore at Wapping Wharf. In 1839, ten years after the Metropolitan Police was formed, the Marine Police (established in 1798) became the Thames Division of the Metropolitan Police. The division's HQ has always been at Wapping River Police Station. Born in Massachusetts, Whistler was not strictly a marine painter, but he did produce many views of the Thames. This print belongs to the set of prints, 'A Series of Sixteen Etchings on the Thames', produced by Whistler and published in 1871. He etched the plates for these prints after he moved to Wapping in 1859. He worked directly with his subjects and by doing so, succeeded in highlighting the existence of a working-class maritime community in the city of London. The etching is signed and dated ‘Whistler. 1859’, lower right. |
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| Date | 1859 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Mount: 152 mm x 228 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | This object was sighted as being on display during the Collections Inventory Project (2001-2005); It will need to be checked for object numbers and its condition activity updated. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/100314 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Print Room Location Code: H 20.4 1903 Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: K 44 iii id number: PAF5487 |
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| Collection | Fine art | ||||||||||||||||||||
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