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1958

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2015

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Print, Seeing the Old Year Out

This is a Print. It was after Winslow Homer and published by Harper's Weekly and Harper & Bros.. It is dated January 5, 1861 and we acquired it in 1958. Its medium is wood engraving in black ink on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.

Its dimensions are

39.9 × 55.5 cm (15 11/16 × 21 7/8 in.)

It is signed

Signed on block, lower left: Homer

Cite this object as

Print, Seeing the Old Year Out; After Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910); Published by Harper's Weekly, Harper & Bros.; USA; wood engraving in black ink on paper; 39.9 × 55.5 cm (15 11/16 × 21 7/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop; 1958-27-5

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