Illustration to "The Relief Fund in Lancashire" (Once a Week, July 26, 1862) MET DP814213

Drawing that was used at a charity benefit performance, raising money for the relief of unemployed cotton-mill workers in Lancashire. Subsequently published in Once a Week magazine. "[Whistler] expresses the idea of death by starvation, representing in nervous lines a wispy figure who is literally fading away." -- Simon Cooke, "Whistler as an Illustrator"