News from the War

published 1862

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 33.8 x 51.7 cm (13 5/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.31.258

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 57

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.130.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.114.

Inscriptions

center in plate: HOMER DEL; lower center: NEWS FROM THE WAR.-[Drawn by our Special Artist, Mr. Winslow Homer.]

Wikidata ID

Q74073686

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