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Winslow Homer

The Signal of Distress, 1891

Not on View

Medium

photogravure in black on wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 443 x 696 mm (17 7/16 x 27 3/8 in.)
Primary

sheet: 509 x 750 mm (20 1/16 x 29 1/2 in.)
Secondary sheet: 575 x 825 mm (22 5/8 x 32 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams

Accession Number

2008.115.2563

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Christian Klackner (publisher) American, 1850 - 1916

Image Use

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Inscription

Inscribed: Copyright 1891, by C. Klackner, New York. in plate, upper left; signed: Winslow Homer in pencil, lower left.

Exhibition History

2012: Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and "The Life Line", Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012.

Bibliography

2012: Foster, Kathleen A. Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2012: 84-86, 113 nt. 265, repro.

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