M9309: Surgeon at Work at the Rear during an Engagement

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M9309

People

After Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Engraved by Unidentified Artist

Title

Surgeon at Work at the Rear during an Engagement

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Harper's Weekly, vol. IV, no. 290, July 12, 1862

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1862

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/256354

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Wood engraving and letterpress on off-white laid paper

Technique

Wood engraving

Dimensions

block: 23.3 × 35.3 cm (9 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
sheet: 27.6 × 40.8 cm (10 7/8 × 16 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left, in block: HOMER
• inscription: below image, printed text: THE SURGEON AT WORK AT THE REAR DURING AN ENGAGEMENT. - [See Page 439.]
• inscription: right of image, printed text: 436 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [July 12, 1862.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

W. G. Russell Allen, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Foster 59

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Year

1938

Object Number

M9309

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Ethan Lasser, "The Artist as Journalist", The Magazine Antiques (November/December 2019), pp. 86-93, pp. 90, 92, repr. p. 90 as fig. 7

Exhibition History

• Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020

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