Merit its own reward, or, The best man leads off the squad - 2, Historic Reproduction

This rare historical print captures Merit its own reward, or, The best man leads off the squad - 2 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

Library of Congress record: Created 1852 Signed: J.W. On front, in pencil, lower right, in unknown hand: J. McN. Whistler, 1852. On back: red collector's stamp of J & ER Pennell (Lugt Suppl. 874a). Cream wove paper, slight cockle finish; no watermark. James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonn . Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 104 (p. 32) Purchase; Pennell Fund; 1944; (44038-2). the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States. Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Humorous pictures.

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