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

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Flight of Xerxes

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                    Flight of Xerxes, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Flight of Xerxes, Metropolitan Museum of Art

This drawing, showing mailed soldiers and archers, and several ships, may be a copy of an illustration. The story of the flight of King Xerxes after his defeat by the Greeks was told in the history of Herodotus.

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