From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitring with Dark Lanterns

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M9303
People: 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: print
Date: 1862
Culture: American

Physical Descriptions

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

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

Standard Reference Number: Foster 53

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Year: 1938
Object Number: M9303
Division: European and American Art
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Exhibition History

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

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