The Dinner Horn, 1870

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 35 x 22.9 cm (13 3/4 x 9 in.)

sheet: 41.1 x 28.4 cm (16 3/16 x 11 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, no. 98

Accession Number

1994.59.27

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: June 11, 1870]; center in plate: HARPER'S WEEKLY.; upper right in plate: 377; lower center in plate: THE DINNER HORN. - [Drawn by Winslow Homer.]

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

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.

1968: Goodrich, Lloyd, The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer, New York, 1968: 30 and pl. 37.