"I Cannot! It Would Be a Sin, a Fearful Sin"

published 1868

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.5 x 12.6 cm (6 7/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 24.1 x 15.5 cm (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.31.224

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 195

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view. See artworks now on view

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.

1969

  • Gelman 1969, no.181.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.167.

Inscriptions

lower left: Drawn by Winslow Homer.; across bottom: "I CANNOT! IT WOULD BE A SIN! A FEARFUL SIN!"-Page 354.

Wikidata ID

Q74073460

You may be interested in

Loading Results