High Tide (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)
August 6, 1870
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
image: 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. (22.5 x 29.8 cm) sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 7/16 in. (26.6 x 36.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.75.1(1)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Winslow Homer’s *High Tide*, published on August 6, 1870, in the illustrated magazine *Every Saturday*, captures a lively moment of leisure by the sea. Created as a wood engraving measuring roughly 9 by 12 inches, the print was designed for wide circulation, allowing middle-class readers to enjoy Homer’s observations of American coastal life without traveling to the shore themselves. Homer, already gaining recognition for his Civil War illustrations, turned his attention to everyday scenes after the conflict. Wood engraving, the dominant reproductive medium of the era, required skilled crafts...
About the Artist
Fields, Osgood & Co.|Winslow Homer (American|American) · 1830 |1836 –1930 |1910
Boston, Massachusetts|American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine