M9309: Surgeon at Work at the Rear during an Engagement
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M9309
- People
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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
- 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
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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
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- 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
Verification Level
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