2018.238: The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty - [From a Painting by W. Homer, Esq.]
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2018.238
- People
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After Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Engraved by Unidentified Artist
- Title
- The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty - [From a Painting by W. Homer, Esq.]
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Harper's Weekly, vol. VI, no. 307, November 15, 1862
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1862
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/362465
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Wood engraving and letterpress on cream laid paper
- Technique
- Wood engraving
- Dimensions
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image: 23.2 × 34.9 cm (9 1/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
sheet: 27.6 × 40.2 cm (10 7/8 × 15 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: below image, printed: THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC - A SHARP-SHOOTER ON PICKET DUTY. - [From a Painting by W. Homer, Esq.]
- inscription: right of image, printed text: 724 HARPER'S WEEKLY [November 15, 1862.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Foster 62
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 2018.238
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Ethan Lasser, "The Artist as Journalist", The Magazine Antiques (November/December 2019), pp. 86-93, pp. 88, 91-92 repr. p. 88 as fig. 2
- Colleen Walsh, "The Artist as Witness", The Harvard Gazette (September 13, 2019), e-journal, repr., https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/winslow-homers-work-as-civil-war-art-correspondent-focus-of-eyewitness-exhibit-at-harvard/, accessed September 17, 2019
- Murray Whyte, [review:] "Harvard Rethinks Winslow Homer's Civil War Legacy with Provocative 'Eyewitness' Show", The Boston Globe (October 3, 2019), repr.
Exhibition History
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Verification Level
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