A Superb Lion and Lioness, Now Exhibiting in Boston, published 1859

Not on View

series Title

From "Ballou's Pictorial", April 9, 1859, p.233

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 17.7 x 24 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

sheet: 38.3 x 28.4 cm (15 1/16 x 11 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, undescribed

Accession Number

1986.31.171

Artists / Makers

Frederick E. Fox (artist) American, active 1852/1861

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

lower left in plate: FOX; lower center: A SUPERB LION AND LIONESS, NOW EXHIBITING IN BOSTON.

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.

1970: Tatham, David. "Winslow Homer in Boston, 1954-1859." Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, New York, 1970: 162.