Provenance

• 1852/1854: given to Frederick Lynn Childs (1831-1894), a fellow cadet at USMA, West Point;
• 1894: passed to his son Thomas Childs (1861-1934).

William E. Gray, 92 Queen's Road, Bayswater, London, photographed 'One of the Board' for Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) in 1907. 1 This suggests that it was briefly in Pennell's possession, presumably when preparing for publication in The Life of James McNeill Whistler. 2 The history of the drawing after 1908 is unknown, but it is possible that it remained in the family. Frederick Lynn Childs had married (1) Mary Hooper Anderson and (2) Rebecca Box Gourdin Ingraham. The drawing was inherited by Thomas Childs, who allowed it to be reproduced by the Pennells in 1908.

Thomas married Clara Annie Beck (1866-1918). They had five children: Alice F. Ravenal (1866-1918), Clara Childs Puckette (1892-1978), Mary Childs (1893-1894), Thomas Childs (1897-1916) and William Wallace Anderson Childs (1906-1965). William's wife Mildred died in 2000; Clara's husband Stephen and son Stephen E. Puckette died in 2017. 3