Great Fair Given at the City Assembly Rooms, New York, December 1861, in Aid of the City Poor

published 1861

after Winslow Homer

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 34 x 51.5 cm (13 3/8 x 20 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 40.1 x 56.3 cm (15 13/16 x 22 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1986.31.256

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 49

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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.

1969

  • Gelman 1969, no.122.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.106.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: W HOMER; lower center: GREAT FAIR GIVEN AT THE CITY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1861, IN AIDOF THE CITY POOR.-[See Page 827.]

Wikidata ID

Q74073680

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