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

published 1861

after Winslow Homer

Associated Names
American 19th Century

Artist

Winslow Homer

Artist After, American, 1836 - 1910

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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