The Wreck of the "Atlantic" - Cast Up by the Sea

1873

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.34 × 34.93 cm (9 3/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 26.99 × 39.69 cm (10 5/8 × 15 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.44.53

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 103

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William and Abigail Gerdts, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: WH; lower center: THE WRECK OF THE "ATLANTIC" - CAST UP BY THE SEA.-Drawn by Winslow Homer.-[See Page 342.]

Wikidata ID

Q77261129

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