Saved, 1889

Not on View

Medium

etching on imitation parchment

Dimensions

image: 42.23 × 70.17 cm (16 5/8 × 27 5/8 in.); plate: 57.15 × 82.87 cm (22 1/2 × 32 5/8 in.);

sheet: 59.06 × 86.68 cm (23 1/4 × 34 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John W. Beatty, Jr.

Accession Number

1964.4.10

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

upper left above image: G.W.H. Ritchie Imp.; upper right above image: Copyright 1889 by C Klackner N.Y.; lower left in plate: Winslow Homer Sc; lower right in graphite: Winslow Homer

Exhibition History

1988: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

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

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. 46.

Bibliography

2012: Foster, Kathleen A. Shipwreck!: Winslow Homer and The Life Line. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2012; 76-77, 77 illus., 82, 112n236, 122.