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

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M.0122
A West Point drummer, and sketches

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852/1853
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: white paper
Size: 6 1/2 x 3 3/4" (165 x 95 mm, sight)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

A West Point drummer, and sketches

Technique

A West Point drummer, and sketches, Private Collection
A West Point drummer, and sketches, Private Collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 122).

Frame

A West Point drummer, and sketches, Private Collection
A West Point drummer, and sketches, Private Collection

A photograph in The Frick Art Reference Library shows this drawing, framed, with a group of seven drawings owned by William Robertson Boggs (1829-1911) and his descendants. These include A West Point drummer, and sketches [M.0122], Cadet life [M.0123], Plebs Policing [M.0124], Russian Dragoon [M.0125], Sam Weller and Mary fold a carpet [M.0135] and Valentine [M.0136]. 1 2

Notes:

1: The Frick digital collections website at https://digitalcollections.frick.org/digico/#/archive/Photoarchive/

2: The Frick digital collections website at https://digitalcollections.frick.org/digico/#/archive/Photoarchive/

Last updated: 30th March 2021 by Margaret