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

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M.0094
One of the Board

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852/1854
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and wash or graphite
Support: probably paper
Size: unknown
Signature: none
Inscription: 'One of the Board - '

One of the Board

Sitter

Frederick Lynn Childs' daughter Mary Mackenzie Childs recorded that this was a cartoon 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.

Last updated: 2nd January 2019 by Margaret