The Coolest Spot in New England - Summit of Mount Washington

published 1870

after Winslow Homer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 35 x 23.3 cm (13 3/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 40 x 27.9 cm (15 3/4 x 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1986.31.208

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 210

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996, 78, no. 26.

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.

1969

  • Gelman 1969, no.217.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.202.

1995

  • Winslow Homer. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996: no. 26.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: WH; across bottom: THE COOLEST SPOT IN NEW ENGLAND-SUMMIT OF MOUNT WASHINGTON.-[Drawn by Winslow Homer.]

Wikidata ID

Q74073374

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