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Photo, Print, Drawing Merit its own reward, or, The best man leads off the squad

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[ digital file from b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-14688 ]

About this Item

Title

  • Merit its own reward, or, The best man leads off the squad

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.

Names

  • Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist

Created / Published

  • [1852]

Headings

  • -  Cadets--New York (State)--West Point--1850-1860

Headings

  • Humorous pictures--1850-1860.
  • Ink drawings--1850-1860.

Genre

  • Humorous pictures--1850-1860
  • Ink drawings--1850-1860

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.

Medium

  • 1 drawing : pen, black ink, and ink wash ; sheet 15.7 x 14.5 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DRWG/MA, no. 276 (AA size) [P&P] DRWG/MA - Whistler,

Repository

Digital Id

  • ds 04701 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.04701
  • cph 3g04571 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04571
  • cph 3b44902 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b44902
  • cph 3a16949 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a16949

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 90706050

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ds-04701 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-4571 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-98824 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-14688 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

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  • Call Number: DRWG/MA, no. 276 (AA size) [P&P] DRWG/MA - Whistler,
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Chicago citation style:

Whistler, James Mcneill, Artist. Merit its own reward, or, The best man leads off the squad. New York West Point, 1852. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/90706050/.

APA citation style:

Whistler, J. M. (1852) Merit its own reward, or, The best man leads off the squad. New York West Point, 1852. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/90706050/.

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Whistler, James Mcneill, Artist. Merit its own reward, or, The best man leads off the squad. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/90706050/>.