Merit its own reward,best man leads off the squad,1852,James McNeill Whistler

Title: Merit its own reward, or, The best man leads off the squad
Creator(s): Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist
Date Created/Published: [1852]
Summary: Satirical drawing showing a cadet lining up three men in civilian clothes. Drawn when Whistler was a cadet at West Point. Probably from the Alexander Webb album.
Notes:
Title from item.
Signed: J.W.
On front, in pencil, lower right, in unknown hand: J. McN. Whistler, 1852.
On back: red collector's stamp of J & ER Pennell (Lugt Suppl. 874a).
Cream wove paper, slight cockle finish; no watermark.
James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 104 (p. 32)
Purchase; Pennell Fund; 1944; (44038-2).
Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
Subjects:
Cadets--New York (State)--West Point--1850-1860.
Humorous pictures--1850-1860.
Ink drawings--1850-1860.
Bookmark /90706050/
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