
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Guard Tents (Recto) (from Sketchbook)
James McNeill Whistler
- Date
- ca. 1854
- Medium
- Black ink on brown wove paper
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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