Reading in the Subway
Date1926
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 4 7/8 × 3 13/16 in. (12.4 × 9.7 cm)
sheet: 11 5/16 × 7 7/8 in. (28.7 × 20 cm)
sheet: 11 5/16 × 7 7/8 in. (28.7 × 20 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.139
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan said he had in mind the verse inscribed on this print when he saw the scene that inspired the etching. Although obscure today, the poem was quoted frequently in the 19th century: Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice peeked in and out,
As if they feared the light
From "Ballad for a Wedding" by Sir John Suckling, about 1620.
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