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A Night Reconnoissance on the Potomac, published 1861

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series Title

From "Harper's Weekly", October 26, 1861, p.673

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 15.1 x 23.4 cm (5 15/16 x 9 3/16 in.)

sheet: 40.4 x 28.1 cm (15 7/8 x 11 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, undescribed

Accession Number

1986.31.67

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

lower left in plate: [HW?]; lower center: A NIGHT RECONNOISSANCE ON THEPOTOMAC.

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.

A Night Reconnoissance on the Potomac, published 1861