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Head of Man Smoking (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 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
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