Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.0183
Newspaper boy: 'Terrible disaster! Loss of the Arctic!!'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.43
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: buff wove paper laid down on card
Size: 4 3/4-5 x 3 1/4-3 5/16" (122-127 x 78-84 mm)
Signature: 'J.W.'
Inscription: " 'Terrible disaster! Loss of the Arctic!!' " and on the newspaper, 'HERALD'

Newspaper boy: 'Terrible disaster! Loss of the Arctic!!'

Newspaper boy: 'Terrible disaster! Loss of the Arctic!!' dates from on or shortly after 11 October 1854. The New York Herald, on 11 October 1854, announced the sinking of the SS Arctic, with the loss of 320 lives, thirteen days earlier.

Newspaper boy: 'Terrible disaster! Loss of the Arctic!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art
Newspaper boy: 'Terrible disaster! Loss of the Arctic!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art

For more information on this work, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 183).

Last updated: 14th March 2021 by Margaret