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

Last updated: 14th March 2021 by Margaret