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Winslow Homer — Trotting on the Mill Dam, Boston
Winslow Homer

Trotting on the Mill Dam, Boston

1859

Depicting a fashionable Boston recreational area, this wood engraving captures the urban leisure activities of the emerging American middle class with both documentary precision and artistic flair.

Medium
wood engraving

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Winslow Homer, Trotting on the Mill Dam, Boston, 1859

Depicting a fashionable Boston recreational area, this wood engraving captures the urban leisure activities of the emerging American middle class with both documentary precision and artistic flair.

Medium
wood engraving
Year
1859
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, American, Boston, Wood Engraving, Landscape, Historical, Urban, Narrative, Figurative

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago