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Monk (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white sketchbook page with five sketches of people. Top left: A standing man in a coat holding a hat, on an elongated white background. Top right: A standing woman wearing a dress and hat on a square white background. Middle: A woman in a hat on a circular white background. Bottom left: A woman sitting on the ground holding a square object on a square white background with written text underneath. Bottom right: A woman standing with a child on her hip on an arched white background. Gray background.

Artwork details

Date:
1854–55
Medium:
Brown ink on light brown wove paper
Culture:
American
Dimensions:
460 × 625 px
Museum record:
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