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after Winslow Homer

"I Cannot! It Would Be a Sin, a Fearful Sin", published 1868

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series Title

From "Galaxy", September 1868,opposite p.341

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 17.5 x 12.6 cm (6 7/8 x 4 15/16 in.)

sheet: 24.1 x 15.5 cm (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, no. 195

Accession Number

1986.31.224

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

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Inscription

lower left: Drawn by Winslow Homer.; across bottom: "I CANNOT! IT WOULD BE A SIN! A FEARFUL SIN!"-Page 354.

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.181.

1977: Kelsey 1977, no.167.

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