Tenth Commandment, published 1870

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series Title

From "Harper's Weekly", March 12, 1870, p.161

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 26.3 x 21.7 cm (10 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.)

sheet: 40.1 x 28 cm (15 13/16 x 11 in.)

Credit Line

Avalon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, no. 95

Accession Number

1986.31.105

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

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Inscription

upper left in plate: WH; upper center in plate: HAVE MERCY UPON US AND INCLINE OUR HEARTS TO KEEP THIS LAW. / TENTH COMMANDMENT; across bottom: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neightbor'swife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox. / or his ass, n or any thing that is his." / " Lord, have mercy upon us, and write all these laws in our hearts, we beseech thee."

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.211.

1977: Kelsey 1977, no.196.