Lot 3
3
WINSLOW HOMER* (1836-1910)

Details
WINSLOW HOMER* (1836-1910)

The Union Cavalry and Artillery Starting in Pursuit of the Rebels Up the Yorktown Turnpike

signed W. Homer and dated May 5th, 1862, l.l.
-- pencil on paper
8½ x 14 1/8 in. (22.1 x 35.8 cm.)
Provenance
Mr. H. C. Rodman, Riverton, New Jersey
The Old Print Shop, New York
Literature
The Old Print Shop Portfolio, New York, March 1958, vol. 7, p. 11
Exhibited
New York, Union Club, Oct. 1967

Lot Essay

This drawing served as the source of an illustration titled, Charge of the First Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Ridge Pit New Yorktown appeared in the May 17, 1862 issue of Harper's Weekly.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Spanierman Gallery/CUNY/Goodrich/Whitney catalogue raisonne of the works of Winslow Homer.