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The Ratcatcher’s Daughter (Five-page song sheet, complete)
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

The Ratcatcher’s Daughter (Five-page song sheet, complete)

Date1855
Maker Winslow Homer born Boston,1836; died Prout's Neck, Maine,1910
Object number2015.21.1
Provenance[Edwin Morrill & Son, Boston]; purchased by donor between 1966 and 1970
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition HistoryPublished 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. 1, p. 27. cf. Tatham. David. “Winslow Homer and the Ratcatcher’s Apprentice,” [Syracuse University] Courier 28 (1967): pp. 4-9. 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. 91, 95, 99 checklist no. 4 cf. Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2005. Vol. I (1846 through 1866). Cat. no. 18, p. 95, reproduced.
Credit LineGift of David Tatham
Dimensions13 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (33.7 x 25.1 cm)
MediumLithograph on wove paper with beige tinting
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