A Superb Lion and Lioness, Now Exhibiting in Boston

published 1859

Frederick E. Fox

Artist, American, active 1852/1861

Frederick E. Fox after Winslow Homer

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.7 x 24 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 38.3 x 28.4 cm (15 1/16 x 11 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1986.31.171

  • 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.

1970

  • Tatham, David. "Winslow Homer in Boston, 1954-1859." Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, New York, 1970: 162.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.50.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: FOX; lower center: A SUPERB LION AND LIONESS, NOW EXHIBITING IN BOSTON.

Wikidata ID

Q74073168

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