Scene in Union Square, New York, on a March Day, published 1860

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series Title

From "Harper's Weekly", April 7, 1860, p.224

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 12.1 x 17.2 cm (4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.)

sheet: 40.7 x 28.5 cm (16 x 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Avalon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, no. 33

Accession Number

1986.31.30

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

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Inscription

lower left in plate: HOMER; across bottom: SCENE IN UNION SQUARE,NEW YORK,ON A MARCH DAY. / Policeman. "Lost anything, Sir?" / Exasperated Old Party. "Don't you see that I 've lost my hat?" / Policeman. "Describe it."

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.95.

1977: Kelsey 1977, no.78.