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

 

Plebs Policing

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                    Plebs Policing, Private Collection
Plebs Policing, Private Collection

Cadets at the Unites States Military Academy at West Point. They seem to be attacking a man and planning to put him in a wheelbarrow. At right is another figure in a cage (not necessarily drawn by Whistler) with a senior uniformed man sitting in front of the cage, to right.

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret