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Drawing, Six Studies of Soldiers' Heads

This is a Drawing. It was created by Winslow Homer. It is dated 1864 and we acquired it in 1912. Its medium is recto: graphite on wove paper verso: graphite, brown and gray crayon on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Charles Savage Homer, Jr.. It is credited Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr..

Its dimensions are

24.4 × 28.9 cm (9 5/8 × 11 3/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in ink, lower right: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt 457d).

It is inscribed

Verso: Inscribed in graphite, upside-down, along bottom edge [recent inscription]: (112)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Six Studies of Soldiers' Heads; Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910); USA; recto: graphite on wove paper verso: graphite, brown and gray crayon on wove paper; 24.4 × 28.9 cm (9 5/8 × 11 3/8 in.); Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.; 1912-12-112

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