View of Mount Vernon and North Colonnade, 1861
Winslow Homer was a war correspondent for Harper’s Weekly when he made this sketch in October 1861. The artist visited Mount Vernon while on his way to the Army of the Potomac, the daily life of which he would illustrate for the popular magazine.
SignedOn the lower right corner of the image: “Homer 1861”.
Published ReferencesPeter H. Wood, Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 35-36.
Barbara S. Groseclose, Nineteenth-Century American Art, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 187.
Peter H. Wood and Karen C. C. Dalton, Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years, (Houston: The Menil Collection, 1988).