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Winslow Homer

Eight Bells, 1887

Not on View

Medium

etching

Dimensions

sheet: 48.26 × 61.28 cm (19 × 24 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John W. Beatty, Jr.

Accession Number

1964.4.7

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in graphite: TO John W Beatty Winslow Homer / 1903.; lower left in plate: HOMER Sculp / Winslow Homer Sculp 1887

Provenance

gift of the artist to John Wesley Beatty (1851-1924) in 1903; by descent to John W. Beatty, Jr.; gift to the NGA, 1964

Associated Names

Beatty, John Wesley
Beatty, Jr., John Wesley

Exhibition History

1983: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

2005: Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006, unnumbered brochure, fig. 6.

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 45.

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