Description
Complete Original Wood Engraved Harper's Weekly, Winslow Homer engravings. This complete, original Harper's Weekly issue is marked, Vol. VI. No. 281, New York, Saturday, May 17, 1862. It includes: cover engraving, Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitering With Dark Lanterns by Mr. Winslow Homer; The Union Cavalry and Artillery Starting in Pursuit of the Rebels Up The Yorktown Turnpike by Homer; Map of the Theatre of the War in Virginia and parts of Maryland, North Carolina and Washington, D.C.; centerfold,Commodore Farragut's Squadron and Captain Porters Mortar Fleet Entering The Mississippi River, with ships, Colorado, Pensacola, Westfield, Mississippi, Connecticut, Harriet Lane, Clinton, Banona and the Lighthouse; Fort Macon Repossessed by A. Wiser, three sketches, Bombardment of Fort Macon, Fort Macon from the Upper Parapet, and The Fifth Rhode Island Regiment entering Fort Macon; three wood engravings including a Winslow Homer, George Peabody, Esq.initialed signature WJ for William Samuel Lyon Jewett, Commodore Farragut, Charge of the First Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Rifle Pit Near Yorktown by W. Homer; The United States Hartford, Commodore Farragut's Flag-ship, initialed, GP, for Granville Perkins, Pickets Conversing Before Yorktown; Political Cartoons, Jeff Davis and the Mayor of New Orleans. 16 x 11 inches. Logos not printed on engravings. Free shipping only within the US.
