The Songs of War

published 1861

after Winslow Homer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 35.2 x 50.8 cm (13 7/8 x 20 in.)
    sheet: 40.2 x 56.4 cm (15 13/16 x 22 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1986.31.254

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 47

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1998

  • Powers of Protest and Persuasion: The Role of the Artist in War, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, 1998-1999.

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.120.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.104.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: HOMER DEL; lower center: THE SONGS OF WAR.

Wikidata ID

Q74073661

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