Young America Rising at the Ballot-Box and Strangling the Serpents: Disunion and Secession, published 1860

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series Title

From "Harper's Weekly", September 1, 1860, p.560

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 22.1 x 17.7 cm (8 11/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

sheet: 40.6 x 28.5 cm (16 x 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Avalon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, undescribed

Accession Number

1986.31.33

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

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Inscription

lower left in plate: HD; across bottom: YOUNG AMERICA RISING AT THE BALLOT-BOX AND STRANGLING THE SERPENTS / DISUNION AND SECESSION. / COLUMBIA.-"Well done, Sonny! 'Go it while you're young, for when you're old you can't.'"

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.