The Cold Embrace

published 1865

John Karst

Artist, American, 1836 - 1922

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.2 x 16.9 cm (8 3/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 39.9 x 28.4 cm (15 11/16 x 11 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.31.198

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1940, no. 30

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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1940

  • Foster, Allen Evarts. "A check list of illustrations by Winslow Homer appearing in various periodicals; a supplement." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 44 (1940): 537-539.

1969

  • Gelman 1969, no.150.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.134.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: John Karst N.Y.; across bottom: THE COLD EMBRACE-"HE SEES THE RIGID FEATURES, THE MARBLE ARMS, THE HANDS CROSSED ON THE COLD BOSOM."

Wikidata ID

Q74073320

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