The Songs of War
published 1861
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
wood engraving on newsprint
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1986.31.254
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Catalogue Raisonné
Foster 1936, no. 47
Artwork history & notes
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.
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: HOMER DEL; lower center: THE SONGS OF WAR.
Wikidata ID
Q74073661