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after Winslow Homer

Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor, published 1873

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series Title

From "Harper's Weekly", October 11, 1873, p.900

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 23.4 x 34.6 cm (9 3/16 x 13 5/8 in.)

sheet: 28 x 40.6 cm (11 x 16 in.)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, no. 110

Accession Number

1986.31.119

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: W.H.; lower center: SHIP-BUILDING, GLOUCESTER HARBOR.-Drawn by Winslow Homer.-[See Page 902.]

Exhibition History

1995: Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996, 141, no. 75.

2005: Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006, unnumbered brochure.

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.242.

1977: Kelsey 1977, no.227.

1995: Winslow Homer. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996: no. 75.

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