The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty
1862
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
wood engraving on newsprint
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.2 x 35 cm (9 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
sheet: 28.7 x 41.9 cm (11 5/16 x 16 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1986.31.75
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Catalogue Raisonné
Foster 1936, no. 62
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
2005
Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006, unnumbered brochure, fig. 1.
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. 34.
Bibliography
1936
Foster, Allen Evarts. "A check list of illustrations by Winslow Homer in 'Harper's Weekly' and other periodicals." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 40 (1936): 842-852. Separately published New York: New York Public Library, 1936.
1969
Gelman 1969, no.135.
1977
Kelsey 1977, no.119.
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: Homer; lower center: THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC-A SHARP-SHOOTER ON PICKET DUTY.-[From a Painting by W. Homer, Esq.]
Wikidata ID
Q74072653