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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M9310
People
Artist after Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Engraved by Unidentified Artist
Title
Army of the Potomac - A Sharp Shooter on Picket Duty
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Harper's Weekly, vol. VI, no. 307, November 15, 1862
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1862
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/256928

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Wood engraving
Dimensions
block: 23 × 34.9 cm (9 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
sheet: 27.4 × 40.6 cm (10 13/16 × 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: bottom center, printed below image: THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC - A SHARP-SHOOTER ON PICKET DUTY - [FROM A PAINTING BY W. HOMER, ESQ.]
  • inscription: right, printed text: 724 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER 15, 1862.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
W. G. Russell Allen, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Foster 62

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
M9310
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #1: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/04/2009 - 10/04/2009

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