The admiration of the furloughmen

Satirical drawing showing a dandy being admired by a group of cadets. Changes in composition include figures moved or crossed out. Drawn while Whistler was a cadet at West Point. Possibly from the Alexander Webb album.

Signed in ink with initials, lower right within image: J.W.
On front, lower right, in unknown hand: "Whistler."
On back: red collector's stamp of J & ER Pennell (Lugt Suppl. 874a).
Cream wove paper with slight cockle finish; no watermark.
James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 105 (p. 32)
Purchase; Pennell Fund; 1944; (440038-1).
Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.