End of the Portage
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910). End of the Portage, 1897. Transparent and opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing on wove paper, 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). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Helen Babbott Sanders, 78.151.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
End of the Portage
Date
1897
Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing on wove paper
Classification
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)
Signatures
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.
Credit Line
Bequest of Helen Babbott Sanders
Accession Number
78.151.1
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