Gloucester Harbor
published 1873
Medium
wood engraving
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1958.3.5
Art Historical Context
**Gloucester Harbor**, a wood engraving published in 3 after Winslow Homer, captures the beauty and daily life of a quintessential New England fishing port. Homer, a leading American realist painter (1836–1910), was renowned for his vivid depictions of maritime scenes, often highlighting the stoic fishermen and turbulent seas that defined coastal America. This print reproduces one of his compositions from Gloucester, Massachusetts—a bustling harbor town central to the 19th-century fishing industryevoking the era's blend of natural drama and human endeavor. Wood engraving, the medium here, was...
About the Artist
after Winslow Homer
"After Winslow Homer" is the conventional attribution in art historical catalogs for a body of mid- to late-19th-century wood engravings that reproduce the illustrations drawn by the eminent American realist painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) for popular periodicals, most notably Harper's Weekly. Beginning in 1857, shortly after Harper's Weekly launched in New York, Homer contributed hundreds of sk...