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Eight Bells
Winslow Homer1887
McNay Art Museum
San Antonio, United States
In Homer's monumental etching, two sailors work together to get their bearings. They are making observations of the sun with their sextants: one measuring the angular altitude of the sun and the other reading the value of his measurements.
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Details
- Title: Eight Bells
- Creator: Winslow Homer
- Date Created: 1887
- Physical Dimensions: plate 19 x 24 ½ in.
- Type: Print
- Rights: Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of the McNay
- Medium: Etching and aquatint
- Art Genre: Seascapes, Sailors
- Art Movement: Realist
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