The Cold Embrace, published 1865

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series Title

From Frank Leslie's "Chimney Corner", June 24, 1865, p.49

Medium

wood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions

image: 21.2 x 16.9 cm (8 3/8 x 6 5/8 in.)

sheet: 39.9 x 28.4 cm (15 11/16 x 11 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Avalon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Foster 1940, no. 30

Accession Number

1986.31.198

Artists / Makers

John Karst (artist) American, 1836 - 1922

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

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Inscription

lower center in plate: John Karst N.Y.; across bottom: THE COLD EMBRACE-"HE SEES THE RIGID FEATURES, THE MARBLE ARMS, THE HANDS CROSSED ON THE COLD BOSOM."

Bibliography

1940: Foster, Allen Evarts. "A check list of illustrations by Winslow Homer appearing in various periodicals; a supplement." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 44 (1940): 537-539.

1969: Gelman 1969, no.150.

1977: Kelsey 1977, no.134.