Title: Bearded Man in Soldier's Cap (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
Object type: Print
Date: 1854–55
Portfolio: Winans Scrapbook
Artist:  James McNeill Whistler 
Artist bio: American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.
Dimensions: sheet: 13/16 x 7/8 in. (2.1 x 2.3 cm) (fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate")
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men