Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening
A soft etching of sailing vessels on calm water, with a dark-sailed boat in the foreground and a line of masted ships receding toward a pale horizon. Fine hatched lines and sparse strokes suggest twilight haze and distance.
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 1116 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1887).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Walter S. Brewster
