The Fleet: Monitors

James McNeill Whistler

Cleveland Museum of Art

A pencil sketch on off-white paper depicts a harbor scene with a line of ships and boats in the background. The foreground shows two men on horseback and one man on foot. The man on the left sits on a fence. All three wear hats. The two on horseback face right. Three ships with tall masts are on the right side of the image. The sky is cloudy. A range of low hills is in the distance on the left.