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

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M.0099
r.: Dress parade; v.: Cadets at West Point

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852/1853
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.18
Medium: r: pencil, pen, brown ink and wash; v: pen, brown ink and gouache
Support: greenish-brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 5 x 3 5/16" (127 x 84 mm)
Signature: 'J.W.'
Inscription: 'Oh! when we go out to dress parade / We look so Fine and gay, / We have to carry our guns along, / To keep the girls away.'

r.: Dress parade; v.: Cadets at West Point

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 99) as 'r.: Dress parade; v.: Cadets at West Point'.

Websites

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art website

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