Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs?", 1874

  • Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910

Wood engraving printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Image: 13 1/2 × 9 1/8 inches (34.3 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 16 1/8 × 10 7/8 inches (41 × 27.6 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Stearn

F77.130

Signed, lower right, on block: W. H.

Inscribed, on block, on tree stump: La[illegible] Inscribed, typeset, lower center: RAID ON A SAND-SWALLOW COLONY - "HOW MANY EGGS?" - [Drawn by Winslow Homer.] Inscribed, typeset, upper left: 496 Inscribed, typeset, upper center: HARPER'S WEEKLY. Inscribed, typeset, upper right: [June 13, 1874. Inscribed, in pencil, upper and lower right corner: 118

1977-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Goodrich, L. The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer. New York, 1968, p. 32, no. 85 (pl. 81).

Winslow Homer, Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs?", 1874, wood engraving printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Stearn, F77.130.