In 1877, John Ruskin derided Nocturne in
Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket after the artist, James McNeill Whistler, showed it at Grosvenor Gallery: [30] «I have seen, and heard, much of
Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.»