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A Shell in the Trenches before Richmond [recto]
1862 Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
This graphite drawing depicts soldiers in a trench during the American Civil War. It was likely created while Homer was working as a battlefield illustrator for Harper's Weekly.
Did you know?
Winslow Homer spent time with the Union Army of the Potomac as a special correspondent for Harper's Weekly during the Peninsula Campaign. Sketches like this one served as the direct basis for his detailed wood engravings that brought the grim, immediate reality of the Civil War to the American public for the first time.
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A Shell in the Trenches before Richmond [recto]
Winslow Homer, 1862
