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after Winslow Homer

August in the Country - The Sea Shore, published 1859

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series Title

From "Harper's Weekly", August 27, 1859, p.553

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 23.2 x 35 cm (9 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.)

sheet: 28.8 x 40.8 cm (11 5/16 x 16 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, no. 25

Accession Number

1986.31.17

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center: W HOMER DEL; lower center: AUGUST IN THE COUNTRY-THE SEA-SHORE.

Exhibition History

1986: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1986-1987.

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.76.

1977: Kelsey 1977, no.65.

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