Old Westminster Bridge

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · 1859

In the middle distance, at the right of buildings partly hidden by trees, the Parliament Houses stand out dark against the sky, and old Westminster Bridge stretches across the Thames. On the river bank at the left are stranded barges, and in the river, by the nearest barge, are two men with horses. Out in the stream are two side-wheel steamboats and some barges under sail. On the Lambeth side are buildings and barges, slightly indicated. There are clouds in the sky. In the left lower corner: "Whistler, 1859."