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Bust of Man (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white sketch page with five sketches. Top left: a man sitting at a table with a curtain behind him. Top right: two people standing and one sitting; an arched line frames the sketch. Middle left: a man in a hat holding a paper; text below reads "Terrible disaster. Loss of the Arctic!!" Middle right: a woman under a hat or umbrella; behind her a man and woman. Bottom right: the head and shoulders of a man. The page has a rough edge on the left. A Roman numeral "II" is in the top right corner.

Artwork Details

Date
1854–55
Medium
Brown ink on off-white wove paper
Culture
American
Dimensions
473 × 625 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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