DrawingsAmerican19th century

Returning Fishing Boats

1883

Artists

Winslow HomerArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

40.9 × 63.3 cm (16 1/8 × 24 15/16 in.) mat: 55.9 × 76.2 cm (22 × 30 in.) frame: 64.6 × 84.8 × 1.9 cm (25 7/16 × 33 3/8 × 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Horace D. Chapin, Boston, before 1911, gift; to his sister, Mrs. Robert B. Osgood, Boston, 1937, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

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