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THBJames Abbott McNeill Whistler
Lot 242
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Brunk Auctions
PO Box 2135
Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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May 17, 2014 - May 18, 2014
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- Lot Description
(American, 1834-1903) Rare and important early group of six drawings and an engraving executed by Whistler while a cadet at West Point, 1851-1854: top row; [Plebs Policing] and [A Caged Cadet] (M.124), 4-1/4 x 7 in.; [Russian Dragoons] (M. 125), 4-1/8 x 7-1/8 in.; second row; [Sam Weller and Mary fold a carpet] (M.135), 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 in.; [The Valentine], (M.136), 7-5/16 x 9-5/8 in., both drawings circa 1853 after Whistler read Charles Dickens' [Pickwick Papers]; third row; [West Point Drummer and sketches] (M.122), 6-3/4 x 4-1/8 in.; 1852 wood engraving for a dance card, inscriptions by another hand, 6-3/4 x 3-1/2 in.; [Cadet Life] (M.123), 6-3/4 x 4-1/16 in. [an area cut out of paper 1-3/16 x 1-3/16 in.], dark brown or black ink on paper; within one late 19th or early 20th century stained step molding geometric frame, all drawings and dance card engraving on card with toning, loose, small damp stains at bottoms. Notes: Exhibited: MacBeth Gallery, [Whistler 1834-1903: Loan Exhibition], April 14- May 10, 1947, New York, #47 as "Group of Pen-and-Ink drawings done when a Cadet at West Point", accompanied by exhibition catalog. Literature: Hinshaw, I.C. (1910, September) "Whistler's First Drawings.." [The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine] Vol. LXXX No. 5 pp 736-741, accompanied by a copy of the Magazine and a typewritten rough draft of the article. MacDonald, Marqaret F., [James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonn?], Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1995, pp 36, 37, 40, 41.. Provenance: The artist to his friend, General William Robertson Boggs (1829-1911); Elizabeth "Bessie" Boggs Taylor (Mrs. William Barrett Taylor); Cornelia Storrs Taylor Long (Mrs. Ralph Long), Winston-Salem, North Carolina; by descent in the Sprunt and Taylor families of Wilmington and Winston Salem, North Carolinaall drawings and dance card engraving on card with toning, loose, small damp stains at bottoms
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