Winslow Homer

William J. B. Burger, Pine Grove, California (acquired by 1978)

[with] Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (by 1980)

Sotheby's New York, 1 June 1984, lot 29

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Adam A. Weschler & Son, Washington, D.C., 22 May 1988, lot 1142

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Lucretia Hoover Giese, Winslow Homer: Painter of the Civil War, Ann Arbor, 1985, pp. 210-11

Marc Simpson, Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, San Francisco, 1989, p. 18

Lloyd Goodrich & Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer; 1846-1866, vol. I, New York, 2005, no. 65, p. 152, illustrated

In letters written by E. Maurice Bloch and Lloyd Goodrich in 1978 and 1979, they conclude that the present work dates from Winslow Homer’s prolific Civil War period. The artist was employed as an illustrator for the popular publication Harper's Weekly magazine. This drawing was intended for reproduction but was ultimately never used for publication.