Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1852 Collection: Library Of Congress, Washington, DC. Accession Number: 2006678404 Medium: pen and black ink Support: cream wove paper Size: 6 1/8 x 5 1/8" (155 x 130 mm) Signature: 'J.W.' Inscription: 'Position of a Soldier: annihilation of the Bowels.' ; and in unknown hands: 'J.McN.
Whistler' and '1852'
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 103) as 'Position of a Soldier'.