Tenth Commandment

published 1870

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1986.31.105

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 95

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Artwork history & notes

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.

Inscriptions

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."

Wikidata ID

Q74072815

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