Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony—“How Many Eggs?”

Winslow Homer1874

Details

Title: Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony—“How Many Eggs?”
Creator: Winslow Homer
Date Created: 1874
Subject Keywords: children (people by age group), genre
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in composition, lower right: “W.H.”; printed after title: “Drawn by Winslow Homer”; signed by engraver, lower left: “Lagarde Sc”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1958
Materials & Techniques: Wood engraving with printed text on verso on wove paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Published in “Harper’s Weekly” 13 June 1874, p. 496
Dimensions: 1910
Bibliography: Cowdrey 182; Beam 212; Goodrich 85
Associated People: Created by Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910)
Accession Number: 1958.4.29

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