"Orrin, Make Haste, I Am Perishing!" (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. VI)

Winslow Homer

August 1868 · Wood engraving · Drawings and Prints

At the same time he created subjects related to everyday life and the Civil War for "Harper's Weekly," Homer drew images inspired by literary stories for "The Galaxy," a monthly magazine established in 1868. This example relates to "Beechdale" by Mary Virginia Terhune (née Hawes) who published under the penname Marion Harland.

Artist: Winslow Homer
Date: August 1868
Medium: Wood engraving
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933

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