Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs?"

published 1874

Lagarde

Artist, American (?), active c. 1873

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 34.2 x 23.1 cm (13 7/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 40.6 x 27.3 cm (16 x 10 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.31.127

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 118

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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.250.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.235.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: W.H; lower left in plate: LAGARDE; lower center: RAID ON A SAND-SWALLOW COLONY.-"HOW MANY EGGS?"-[Drawn by Winslow Homer.]

Wikidata ID

Q74072945

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