Death, or an Honorable Life [Roger’s Quickstep]

Date1856

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

Object number2015.21.3

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

Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann

Published Referencescf. 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. 96, 99, checklist no. 8, reproduced p. 101 [Bostonian Society 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. 26, p. 100, reproduced.

Credit LineGift of David Tatham

Dimensions14 x 10 7/8 in. (35.6 x 27.6 cm)

MediumLithograph on wove paper