The Dinner Horn
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 35 x 22.9 cm (13 3/4 x 9 in.) sheet: 41.1 x 28.4 cm (16 3/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1994.59.27
About the Artist
after Winslow Homer
"After Winslow Homer" is the conventional attribution in art historical catalogs for a body of mid- to late-19th-century wood engravings that reproduce the illustrations drawn by the eminent American realist painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) for popular periodicals, most notably Harper's Weekly. Beginning in 1857, shortly after Harper's Weekly launched in New York, Homer contributed hundreds of sk...