1864
The figure at left is incised, and the verso of the drawing behind this figure is blackened with chalk.
33.2 × 28 cm (13 1/16 × 11 in.)
Winslow Homer, sold [through Charles F. Libbie & Co., Boston, May 29, 1878]. Dr. Henry C. Angell, Boston, before 1879, gift; to Ingersoll Bowditch, Boston, circa 1925, by descent; to Sylvia Scudder Bowditch, Cornelia Bowditch, and Katherine Bowditch Codman, Boston, circa 1935, sold; to [The Old Print Shop, New York] and [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1959] [1], sold; to Ethel and Oscar Huffman, 1963, by descent; to private collection, United States, circa 1970, sold; [through Sotheby's, New York, November 21, 2016, lot 13]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016 Notes [1] According to the Knoedler Stockbook, the drawing was co-owned by The Old Print Shop and M. Knoedler & Co.
Black crayon on thin off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanBlack and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
19th centuryAmericanCharcoal on cream laid paper
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanGraphite on cream wove paper, darkened
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanBlack ink over graphite on off-white card
19th centuryAmericanWatercolor over graphite with scratchwork on off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanBlack ink on off-white laid paper
19th centuryAmericanWatercolor and white gouache on off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on darkened off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmerican