The Wheel Barrow Polka [Five-page song sheet, complete]

1856

Winslow Homer

born Boston,1836; died Prout's Neck, Maine,1910

J. H. Bufford’s Lithography

Oliver Ditson

Lithograph on wove paper

12 7/8 x 10 in. (32.7 x 25.4 cm)

Gift of David Tatham

2015.21.2

Provenance: [Edwin Morrill & Son, Boston]; purchased by donor between 1966 and 1970

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Not currently on view

Resources

Published Referencescf. Goodrich, Lloyd. The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer. Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for The Museum of Graphic Art, 1968; Cat. no. 2, p. 27.

cf. Tatham, David. “Some Apprentice Lithographs of Winslow Homer: Ten Pictorial Title Pages for Sheet Music,” Old Time New England [The Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities] 59 (July 1968-April 1969): pp. 90, 94, 96, 99, checklist no. 9, reproduced p. 86 [Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute impression].

cf. Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer, edited and expanded by Abigail Gerdts. New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2005. Vol. I (1846-1866), no. 27, p. 101, reproduced.

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