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Frederick News
Maryland, U.S.A.
6 December 1888

It is said that Whistler, the celebrated artist, is at work on a picture representing one of the victims of the Whitechapel murder as she was found mutilated and bleeding. "Realism in art" is what such indecencies are called, but the term is frequently synonymous with the apotheosis of disgusting naked filth.