September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, New York, 16pp., complete issue, disbound, June 13, 1874, VG. From the interior, a vertical full page engraving by Winslow Homer, "Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony-How Many Eggs?" Philip Beam in his book on Homer's wood engravings notes that, an accent on carefree youth had always been prominent in Homer's work and he brought it to a climax in the mid-seventies with his "children's series." The best known of these are also masterpieces of his work in the engraving field:... “Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony -How Many Eggs?"
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