

Black and white sketch page with five sketches. Top left: A man sitting at a table with curtains behind. Top right: Two men standing. Bottom left: A man standing with text below; three lines of text read "Terrible disaster!" on the first line, "Loss" on the second line and "of the Arctic!!" on the third line. Bottom right: Two small sketches; a man under a parasol on the top, a man's head on the bottom. The title of the image is "Head of Man Smoking (from Sketchbook)" by James McNeill Whistler.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 1854–55
- Medium
- Brown ink on blue wove paper
- Culture
- American
- Dimensions
- 473 × 625 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original
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