Young America Rising at the Ballot-Box and Strangling the Serpents: Disunion and Secession

published 1860

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.1 x 17.7 cm (8 11/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.6 x 28.5 cm (16 x 11 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.31.33

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, undescribed

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Artwork history & notes

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

lower left in plate: HD; across bottom: YOUNG AMERICA RISING AT THE BALLOT-BOX AND STRANGLING THE SERPENTS / DISUNION AND SECESSION. / COLUMBIA.-"Well done, Sonny! 'Go it while you're young, for when you're old you can't.'"

Wikidata ID

Q74072454

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