Raid on a Sand Swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs?", from Harper's Weekly, June 13, 1874 (Primary Title)

Winslow Homer, American, 1836 - 1910 (Artist)

1874
American
Works On Paper
Prints
wood engraving on newsprint
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (41.91 × 29.21 cm)
Image: 13 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (34.29 × 23.02 cm)
47.25.26
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: RAID ON A SAND-SWALLOW COLONY- "HOW MANY EGGS?"- [Drawn by Winslow Homer.] Printed along upper margin: 496 HARPER'S WEEKLY [June 13, 1874. Letterpress text on verso.
Gift of Mr. John G. Phillips, Jr.
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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