Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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One of the Board

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Frederick Lynn Childs' daughter Mary Mackenzie Childs recorded that this was a caricature of the Board of Visitors at West Point. 1 The fifteen or so members of the Board were responsible for overseeing examinations.

Notes:

1: Letter from her brother Thomas Childs to Pennell, LC PC.

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