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Snap the Whip, from Harper's Weekly, September 20, 1873, pp. 245-25
Winslow Homer1873
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Nine barefoot country boys play snap the whip. Seven boys are holding onto each other's hands while two boys have broken away on the left. On the right middle ground is a school house. On the left, children can be seen in the background.
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- Title: Snap the Whip, from Harper's Weekly, September 20, 1873, pp. 245-25
- Creator: Winslow Homer
- Creator Lifespan: 1836/1910
- Date Created: 1873
- Physical Dimensions: w522 x h344 cm
- Type: Print
- Rights: Gift of John Goldsmith Phillips, Jr.
- Medium: Wood engraving on off-white wove paper
- Signed: Signed on block, lower right: HOMER 1873Signed on block, lower left: LAGARDE Sc
- Provenance: John Goldsmith Phillips, Jr
- Paper Support: Off-white wove paper
- Inscribed: Caption: "SNAP-THE-WHIP."- DRAWN BY WINSLOW HOMER.- [SEE PAGE 826.]
- Exhibitions: London, UK - Victoria & Albert Museum, "Winslow Homer," November 27, 1974 - January 19, 1975New York - Wildenstein & Co. Gallery, "Winslow Homer," May 3, 1972 - June 3, 1972.New Bedford, MA - Wm. W. Crapo Gallery, "History of Illustration," April 14, 1968 - May 11, 1968
- Dimensions: 40.5 x 57.3 cm (15 15/16 x 22 9/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Dee, Elaine Evans and John R. Wilmerding. Winslow Homer (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972), no. 106. (illus.).
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