2018.163: News from the War [Drawn by our special artist, Mr. Winslow Homer]
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2018.163
- People
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After Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- News from the War [Drawn by our special artist, Mr. Winslow Homer]
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Harper's Weekly, vol. VI, no. 285, June 14, 1862
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1862
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/362110
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Wood engraving and letterpress on cream laid paper
- Technique
- Wood engraving and letterpress
- Dimensions
- sight: 39.6 × 54.6 cm (15 9/16 × 21 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: printed below image: NEWS FROM THE WAR. - [DRAWN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, MR. WINSLOW HOMER.]; printed above image, top left: 376 [page number]; top right: 377 [page number]; top center: HARPER'S WEEKLY; in plate, lower left: E Farrin / JJ Handle / 1st Me. Regt / 6 Ft 7 Inches; Our special Artist; upper left: U.S.M. / Gulf Squadron / West; For the Fleet.; center: News for the Staff.; WOUNDED; WAR / NEWS / ILLUSTRATED.; upper right: CAVALRY; From Richmond; lower right: The Newspaper Train
- inscription: in plate, center:: HOMER DEL
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Unknown dealer], sold; to Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., circa 1970, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Gelman 130; Beam 94
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Ted Stebbins
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 2018.163
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- double page spread from Harper's Magazine
Publication History
- Ethan Lasser, "The Artist as Journalist", The Magazine Antiques (November/December 2019), pp. 86-93, p. 90, repr. as fig. 6
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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