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Drawn in Wellfleet, MA, January, for "Self Portrait in Uniform." ED note: "The drawing was made when the rendering of the bugle from nature was undertaken. Indeed, before the painting of the bugle actually started, which work was long after the head had been done and the coat, too. This drawing with its imperfectness is one of the very few used working drawings I have ever made. I recall not feeling capable of doing as well as I could on the bugle unless I made a little drawing of it in one position because it was done slung over my own shoulder in a mirror, and it might not stay twice the same because the shoulder holding it was moving around to paint the picture. I'll bet I haven't made 25 working drawings in my life as purely exemplifying what's meant by `working drawings' as much as this one."