Willie Whistler,Camarades,Cadets in Uniform,James McNeill Whistler,c1851

Title: Willie Whistler and 'camarades' on their way to the chapel after putting on their canonicals
Creator(s): Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist
Date Created/Published: [1851 or 1852]
Summary: Three cadets in uniform, standing on a wall, calling down to four figures in caps and gowns who are walking towards chapel entrance. Also includes sketch at bottom of sheet: stick figure with goatee and feathered hat; lower half of figure in cadet's trousers lounging with legs crossed at ankles. Drawn while cadet was at West Point on the back of a prospectus for Racine College, January-April 1853 term.
Notes:
Title from item.
Signed at lower right in pencil with butterfly device.
White wove paper, folded in twelfths; no watermark. Drawing is on the back of a printed prospectus for Racine College, January-April 1853.
On back: black collector's stamp of J & ER Pennell (Lugt Suppl. 874a).
Back annotated in pen: Cadet Whistler and other members of the 21st look on! and Willie Whistler and Camarades on their way to Chapel after putting on their Canonicals.
Purchase; Pennell Fund; 1939; (390017-61).
James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 77 (p. 23)
Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.
Subjects:
Cadets--New York (State)--West Point--1850-1860.
Drawings--1850-1860.
Humorous pictures--1850-1860.
Self-portraits--1850-1860.
Bookmark /89709197/
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