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Position of a soldier: annihilation of the bowels,Cadet,Whistler,West Point,1852

Title: Position of a soldier: annihilation of the bowels
Creator(s): Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist
Date Created/Published: [1852]
Summary: Satirical drawing of a cadet pointing at a man in civilian clothes who is trying to stand at attention. Drawn while Whistler was a cadet at West Point. Probably from the Alexander Webb album.
Notes:
Title from item.
Signed: J.W.
On front, lower right, in unknown hand: 'J McN Whistler 1852.'
Cream wove paper with slight cockle finish; no watermark.
On back: red collector's stamp of J & ER Pennell (Lugt Suppl. 874a).
James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 103 (p. 31)
Purchase; Pennell Fund; 1944; (440038-3).
Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.
Subjects:
Cadets--New York (State)--West Point--1850-1860.
Humorous pictures--1850-1860.
Ink drawings--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2006678404/
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