- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- M9303
- People
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After Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Engraved by Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitring with Dark Lanterns - Sketched by Mr. Winslow Homer
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Harper's Weekly, vol. VI, no. 281, May 17, 1862
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1862
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/256333
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Wood engraving and letterpress on off-white laid paper
- Technique
- Wood engraving
- Dimensions
- block: 27.8 × 23.4 cm (10 15/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
sheet: 40.7 × 27.4 cm (16 × 10 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: above image: HARPER's WEEKLY. / A / JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. / Vol. VI. - No. 281.] NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1862. [SINGLE COPIES SIX CENTS. $2 50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE . / Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the Year 1862, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
- inscription: below block, letterpress: REBELS OUTSIDE THEIR WORKS AT YORKTOWN RECONNOITRING WITH DARK LANTERNS. - Sketched by Mr. Winslow Homer. - [See Page 315.]
- Provenance
- W. G. Russell Allen, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Foster 53
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
- Accession Year
- 1938
- Object Number
- M9303
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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"General McClellan's Army", Harper's Weekly (May 17, 1862), Vol. 6, no. 281, pp. 305, 315
Ethan Lasser, "The Artist as Journalist", The Magazine Antiques (November/December 2019), pp. 86-93, pp. 89, 91, repr. as fig. 4
- Exhibition History
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Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020
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M9303
Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitring with Dark Lanterns - Sketched by Mr. Winslow Homer
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