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Reconnaissance in Force by General Gorman before Yorktown
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
1862
Object Place: United States
Medium/Technique
Graphite with brush and gray wash on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 21 x 33.7 cm (8 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number50.3915
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (Civil War) 0966
InscriptionsSigned in graphite in l.l.: "WH"; l.c. and l.r.: "Reconnaissance in force by Gen'Gorman before Yorktown,/ Rebel battery only three hundred yards distant behind the woods." Verso: in graphite, "House was headquarters of French Commander at old siege of Yorktown." [In Homer's hand?]