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Print, Trapping in the Adirondacks, from Every Saturday, December 24, 1870, p. 849., 1870
This is a Print. It was after Winslow Homer and engraved by John Parker Davis. It is dated 1870 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is wood engraving on off-white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
From his 1870 and 1874 Adirondacks trips to the Baker Farm, Homer executed drawings for five periodical illustrations. Three of these depict men trapping, deer hunting, and resting after trout fishing near Beaver Mountain and Mink Pond. Homer took as his models two local guides, the rugged and resourceful Rufus Wallace (with beard) and Charles Lancaster, who in these scenes were presumably hunting and fishing for their daily subsistence. However, when the engravings appeared in the periodicals Every Saturday and Harper’s Weekly, the editors described them as images of gentlemen “sportsmen,” on a wilderness holiday to engage their male readers in recollections of past, or fantasies of future, Adirondacks sporting vacations. The adjacent print, Waiting for a Bite, of local boys passing a summer day fishing at Mink Pond (based on Homer’s oil painting and watercolor of the subject) references the Victorian association of young children with the innocence and wholesomeness of rural life.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
It is credited Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund.
Its dimensions are
25 × 34.2 cm (9 13/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
It is signed
Signed on block, lower left: HOMER Signed on block, lower right: J. P. DAVIS Sc
It is inscribed
Caption: Trapping in the Adirondacks. - Drawn By Winslow Homer. (See Page 838.)
Cite this object as
Print, Trapping in the Adirondacks, from Every Saturday, December 24, 1870, p. 849., 1870; After Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910); Engraved by John Parker Davis; USA; wood engraving on off-white wove paper; 25 × 34.2 cm (9 13/16 × 13 7/16 in.); Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund; 1938-65-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
