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

1856

Winslow Homer

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

W. L. Champney

J. H. Bufford’s Lithography

H. B. Dodworth

Lithograph on wove paper

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

Gift of David Tatham

2015.21.3

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

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Not currently on view

Resources

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.

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