Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1843 Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Accession Number: 1970.121.10 Medium: pencil Support: off-white wove paper, in a Scrapbook bound in cardboard covered in green paper, with leather spine labelled in gilt 'S[CRAP]B[OOK]' and leather corners Size: 4 x 5 13/16" (102 x 148 mm) Scrapbook boards 275 x 196 mm, pages 268 x 198 mm Signature: 'James A. Whistler' Inscription: 'Flight of Xerxes. Stonington Feb 27th. 1843'
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 3) as 'Flight of Xerxes'.