End of the Portage

• Artist: Winslow Homer
• Medium: Transparent and opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing on off-white, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper
• Dates: 1897
• Dimensions: 14 x 21 in. (35.6 x 53.3 cm) Frame: 24 x 30 x 1 1/2 in. (61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm)
• Signature: Signed lower left: "HOMER '97"
• Inscriptions: On verso: inscribed across whole sheet in black chalk (?), "Saguenay River / Grand Discharge / P. Q. Canada / Winslow Homer"; in center of sheet, in midst of larger inscription, in graphite, "E. L---- / C 23581 / 1 XX"; at top right in graphite, "45431" encircled.
• Collection: American Art
• Museum Location: Brooklyn Museum, BMA, 2N12, K216
• Exhibitions:
  • Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection (September 14, 2007 through January 17, 2008)
• Accession Number: 78.151.1
• Image: 78.151.1_SL3.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 0,