Prints by Winslow Homer

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Genre prints from Harper's Weekly

Newspapers like Harper’s Weekly, Ballou’s Pictorial, Every Saturday, etc., were filled each week with woodblock illustrations by many of the leading American artists of the last half of the nineteenth century. Now-famous painters like Winslow Homer gained early experience as staff artists on the Civil War battlefield, providing sketches that were published as contemporaneous views of battles, soldiers and scenes. These pictures provided the most widely circulated eye-witness illustrations of the war, and thus were the most common means by which Americans could view the events and persons of the tragic conflict. Also of great interest are the genre scenes drawn by leading American artists, many of whom got their first chance to succeed through such weekly papers. Again, Winslow Homer's work shines through, displaying his talent for sympathetically capturing people in distinctive land- and seascapes. Examples of Homer's work in papers like Harper's are now beginning to be appreciated not only as decorative and affordable, but also as historically significant for collectors .

The following prints are all wood engravings after Winslow Homer. They are uncolored and on full sheets as originally issued, unless otherwise noted. All are in very good condition, except as noted. Numbers preceded by “B” refer to the prints listed in the book Winslow Homer’s Magazine Engravings by Philip Beam.

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Folio

“Spring in the City.” 1858. 9 1/8 x 13 3/4. B22. [Has a slight tear in image, nearly invisible.] $125
"The Bathe at Newport." 1858. 9 1/4 x 13 3/4. B25. $175
“Picnicking in the Woods.” 1858. 9 1/4 x 13 3/4. B26. $175
"Husking the Corn in New England." 9 x 13 3/4. B27. $175
“Thanksgiving Day – Ways and Means” and “ – Arrival at the Old Home.” 1858. Ea. 6 1/2 x 9 1/4. B30 & B31. [Repaired tear.] $65
“Thanksgiving Day–The Dinner” and “The Dance.” 1858. Ea. 6 1/2 x 9 1/4. B32 & B33. $90
"Driving Home the Corn" and "The Dance After the Husking." 1858. Ea. 6 x 9 1/4. B28 & 29. $95
"March Winds" and "April Showers." 1859. Each 6 x 9. B53 & 54. $90
"The Skating Season--1862." 1862. 9 x 13 3/4. $150
“The Russian Ball-in the Supper Room.” 1863. 10 1/2 x 9. B107. $125
"'Winter' - A Skating Scene." 1868. 9 x 13 1/2. B129. $350
"Tenth Commandment." 11 x 9, 1870. $100
"Spring Blossoms." 1870. 9 1/8 x 14 7/8. B173. $350
"On the Bluff at Long Branch, at the Bathing Hour." 1870. 8 7/8 x 13 3/4. B175. $325
"Making Hay." 1872. 9 1/4 x 13 7/8. B194. $325
"On the Beach--Two Are Company, Three Are None." 1872. 9 x 13 3/4. B195. $350
“The Noon Recess.” 1873. 9 x 13 1/2. B198. $325
“The Bathers.” 1873. 13 3/4 x 9 1/8. B199. $325
“Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor.” 1873. 9 1/4 x 13 5/8. B204. $500
“The Last Days of Harvest.” 1873. 9 1/8 x 13 1/4. B206. NA
“The Morning Bell.” 1873. 9 1/8 x 13 1/2. B207. With added color. $325
"Station-House Lodgers." 1874. 9 x 13 1/2. B208. $125
"Watch-Tower, Corner of Spring and Varick Streets, NY." 1874. 13 3/4 x 9 1/8. B209. $125
"The Chinese In New York-Scene In A Baxter Street Club-House." 1874. 14 3/4 x 9. B210. $125
“New York Charities-St. Barnabas House, 302 Mulberry St.” 1874. 9 x 13 1/2. B211. $125
“Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony - How Many Eggs?” 1874. 13 1/2 x 9 1/8. B212. $375
"On the Beach at Long Branch-The Children's Hour." 1874. 9 1/8 x 13 1/2. B214. $350
"Seesaw-Gloucester, Massachusetts." 1874. 9 1/8 x13 5/8. B216. $500
"Flirting on the Sea-Shore and on the Meadow." 1874. 9 1/8 x 13 5/8. B217. $300
"Camping Out in the Adirondack Mountains." 1874. 9 1/8 x 13 3/4. B218. $400

Double folio

"Great Fair Given at the City Assembly Rooms, New York, December 1861, in Aid of the City Poor." 1861. 13 1/4 x 20 1/4. B87. $175
“The Great Russian Ball at the Academy of Music, November 5, 1863.” 1863. 13 1/8 x 20 1/4. B108. $175
"Homeward Bound." 1867. 13 7/8 x 20 3/8. B123. $400
“Snap-the-Whip.” 1873. 13 1/2 x 20 1/2. B202. Small chip at centerfold in bottom margin. Else excellent. $1,700

Civil War prints from Harper's Weekly

Folio

"Presidents Buchanan and Lincoln Entering the Senate Chamber Before the Inauguration." 6 x 9. $45
"The Georgia Delegation in Congress." 1861. 14 x 9 1/4. $45
"The Advance Guard of the Grand Army of the United States Crossing the Long Bridge Over the Potomac, at 2 A.M. on May 24, 1861." June 8, 1861. 9 1/4 x 14. $120
“Crew of the United States Steam-Sloop ‘Colorado’, Shipped at Boston, June, 1861.” 9 1/4 x 13 3/4. B82. $120
“Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal, at Watertown, Massachusetts.” 1861. 9 1/8 x 13 3/4. B83. $100
“A Night Reconnaissance on the Potomac.” 1861. 5 7/8 x 9 1/4. B84. $65
“Rebels Outside their works at Yorktown Reconnoitering with Dark Lanterns.” 1862. 11 x 9 1/8. B90. $120
“The Union Cavalry and Artillery Starting in Pursuit of the Rebels up the Yorktown Turnpike.” 1862. 9 1/4 x 13 7/8. B91. $120
"Charge of the First Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Rifle Pit near Yorktown." 1862. 7 x 9 image on a full page. B92. $75
“The Army of the Potomac – Our Outlying Picket in the Woods.” 1862. 7 x 9 1/4. B93. $75
"The Army of the Potomac -- A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty." 1862. 9 1/8 x 13 3/4. B99. Light stain in top margin, not affecting image. $750
“Thanksgiving in Camp.” 1862. 9 1/8 x 13 3/4. B100. $150
“Winter Quarters in Camp-The Inside of a Hut”. 1863. 9 x 13 3/4. B102. $110
"The Approach of the British Pirate Alabama." 1863. 13 3/4 x 9 1/8. B105. $150
"Great Sumter Meeting in Union Square, New York." 1863. 9 x 13 3/4. B104. $120
“Any Thing for me, if you Please?”-Post Office of the Brooklyn Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission. 1864. 13 3/4 x 9. B 110. $120
“Thanksgiving Day in the Army.-After Dinner: The Wishbone.” 1864. 9 1/8 x 13 3/4. B111. $110

Double folio

“Songs of the War.” 1861. 14 x 20. B85. $225
"Bivouac Fire on the Potomac." 1861. 13 3/4 x 20. B86. $225
“Our Army Before Yorktown.” 1862. 13 1/2 x 20 3/4. B89. $110
“News from the War.” 1862. 13 1/4 x 20 1/4. B94. $225
“The War for the Union, 1862-A Cavalry Charge.” 1862. 13 1/2 x 20 5/8. B95. $225
“The War for the Union, 1862-A Bayonet Charge.” 1862. 13 5/8 x 20 5/8. B97. $225
“Our Women and the War.” 1862. 13 5/8 x 20 5/8 in. B98. $150
“Pay-Day in the Army of the Potomac.” 13 3/4 x 20 3/8. Small holes, expertly repaired. B103. $175

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Prints from Our Young Folks

All are approximately 6 1/2 x 3 3/4.

"Green Apples." August 1868. B146. $175
"The Playmates." November 1869. B169. $175

Prints from The Galaxy

All are approximately 6 1/2 x 4 1/2.

“Jessie Remained Alone at the Table.” 1868. B137. $175
"Hi! H-o-o-o! He Done Come. Jumboloro Tell You First." 1869. B160. $125
"Come." 1869. B161. $175
“I Call Them my Children-to Myself, Susan.” 1869. B162. $125
“Weary and Dissatisfied with Everything.” 1869. B163. $125
“In Came a Storm of Wind, Rain and Spray - and Portia.” 1869. B164. $175
"George Blake's Letter." 1870. B183. $125

Prints from Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art

All are approximately 6 1/4 x 6 1/2 unless noted.

"The Last Load." 4 1/2 x 6 1/2. [with text below] B156. $175
“The Picnic Excursion.” 6 1/2 x 9 1/4. B157. [Old repaired tears in margins.] $175
"The Beach At Long Branch." 13 x 19 1/2. B158. $950
“Danger Ahead.” [with masthead]. B176. $175
"A Quiet Day in the Woods." [with masthead] B177. $175

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