Seeing the Old Year Out - Watch Night

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M9292
People: Designed by Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Published by Harper and Brothers Publishers
Title: Seeing the Old Year Out - Watch Night
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Harper's Weekly, January 5, 1861
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: January 5, 1861
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/256873

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Wood engraving

Technique

Wood engraving

Dimensions

Image: 35 × 51.6 cm (13 3/4 × 20 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 39.8 × 58 cm (15 11/16 × 22 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.l.: Homer

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: F. 37

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Year: 1938
Object Number: M9292
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

"Seeing the Old Year Out", Harper's Weekly (January 5, 1861), Vol. 5, no. 210, pp. 8-9

Verification Level

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