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after Winslow Homer

The Songs of War, published 1861

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series Title

From "Harper's Weekly", November 23, 1861, p.744-45

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 35.2 x 50.8 cm (13 7/8 x 20 in.)

sheet: 40.2 x 56.4 cm (15 13/16 x 22 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, no. 47

Accession Number

1986.31.254

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

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Inscription

lower center in plate: HOMER DEL; lower center: THE SONGS OF WAR.

Exhibition History

1998: Powers of Protest and Persuasion: The Role of the Artist in War, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, 1998-1999.

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.120.

1977: Kelsey 1977, no.104.

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