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after Winslow Homer

A Bivouac Fire on the Potomac, published 1861

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series Title

From "Harper's Weekly", December 21, 1861, p.808-09

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 35.2 x 51.2 cm (13 7/8 x 20 3/16 in.)

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

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1936, no. 48

Accession Number

1986.31.255

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

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Inscription

lower left in plate: HOMER.; lower center: A BIVOUAC FIRE ON THE POTOMAC.

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.121.

1977: Kelsey 1977, no.105.

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