Massachusetts Volunteers: The Boston Regiments Embarking for Washington in the Jersey City Cars, published 1861

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series Title

From "Harper's Weekly", May 4, 1861, p.280

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 34.9 x 23.4 cm (13 3/4 x 9 3/16 in.)

sheet: 41.7 x 29.9 cm (16 7/16 x 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Avalon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, undescribed

Accession Number

1986.31.56

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

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Inscription

upper left in plate: 1776 /LIBERTY: upper right in plate: 1861 / UNION: across bottom in plate: MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS: across bottom: THE BOSTON REGIMENTS EMBARKING FOR WASHINGTON IN THE JERSEY CITY C ARS.

Bibliography

1936: Foster, Allen Evarts. "A check list of illustrations by Winslow Homer in 'Harper's Weekly' and other periodicals." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 40 (1936): 842-852. Separately published New York: New York Public Library, 1936.