The Battle of Bunker Hill – Watching the Fight from Copp's Hill, in Boston (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIX)
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
image: 9 1/8 x 13 5/8 in. (23.2 x 34.6 cm) sheet: 10 5/16 x 17 1/4 in. (26.2 x 43.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.111.7(1)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the past with Winslow Homer's vivid wood engraving, *The Battle of Bunker Hill Watching the Fight from Copp Hill, in Boston*, in *Harper's Weekly in 1875. This dynamic print captures a tense moment during the American Revolution: civilians—men and women perched precariously on rooftops in Boston's Copp's Hill neighborhood—gaze across the harbor toward the chaos of the Battle of Bunker on June 17, 1775. Homer, a master of American realism renowned for his Civil War illustrations and maritime scenes, skillfully conveys the drama of ordinary people witnessing history unfold. Created a ...
About the Artist
Winslow Homer|Harper's Weekly|Harper & Brothers · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...